[bright music] - Hi everyone.

Welcome to my classroom.

I'm Miss Zoe and today we have a great math game.

Today we are going to learn how to tell and how to show numbers that are greater or less than or equal to another.

And when we write it, we show it using symbols.

And a lot of times when we start learning in kindergarten, we have our little, we call him Gator.

And Gator loves to eat more of something.

So here's his mouth.

And so when his mouth is pointing at something, it means there's more of that, right?

So if there was a number here and a number here, Gator would want to eat more so he would take that number.

So we also have our equal sign.

This is a fun little equal sign, meaning two numbers are the same, have the same amount.

So here we have our mat with two ponds because gators, as we know, love the water.

And we are going to use these little blue stones representing water drops.

And so what we are going to do is we are gonna put a number of raindrops on one side.

And then my friend Anya, who will be here, will put raindrops on another side over here.

So now here we have five on one side and two on the other side.

We have two and five and five is more.

So like we said, Gator wants to eat the most.

So Gator would be positioned like this.

And we say two is less than five.

Now let's say a five is over here and the two was over here.

Gator would be facing a different way.

His mouth, because he wants more, would face this way.

I have one more example before we start the game.

So we have seven on one side, seven on the other side.

Is seven greater than, less than, or equal to seven?

It is the same so it is equal to.

So we put an equal sign.

And I would write it.

Seven is equal to seven.

Seven is equal to seven.

It is the same number.

Guess who's with me?

- Anya.

- Anya.

And Anya, today we are going to play a game called greater than, less than or equal to, meaning more, less, or the same.

Okay, so these are our raindrops.

Here are our ponds.

This is Gator.

And Gator loves to eat the most, right?

So if Gator's mouth is pointing to your pond, it means you have more.

If Gator's mouth is pointing to my pond, it means I have more.

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna pick a card.

Ready?

You pick your card.

These are my cards.

These are your cards.

Pick a card.

Okay, flip it over.

And what number did you get?

- One.

- One.

We got one and I got nine.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

So you're going to put how many water drops on yours?

- One.

- One.

Go ahead.

One.

And I'm going to put nine.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

So Anya, who has more?

- You.

- Me?

You're right.

So if we look at our two groups, one is less than nine.

So Gator is going to point and eat my pile.

And the way we write this, one is less than nine.

Like we said, Gator wants to eat the most.

All right, let's clear the board.

I wonder what she's gonna pick next.

What number is that?

- Six.

- All right.

Can you show our friends at home?

Six.

And I picked... - Two.

- Two.

All right, let's put 'em down.

- Ready.

- Go ahead.

- One, two, three, four, five, six.

- Great and I'm going to put two.

One, two.

So is six greater than two?

It has more.

So which way is Gator gonna face?

- My way.

- All right, go ahead.

Put Gator down.

Great job.

So we say six is greater than two, right?

And we write it.

Six is greater than two.

Okay Anya, your turn.

- Five.

- Five.

And I'm going to pick, can you show our friends five?

- Five.

- And I picked- - Five.

- [gasps] Five!

All right, you put yours down.

- One, two, three, four, five.

- All right, I'm going to count out the same.

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four, five.

So is five greater than, less than, or equal to?

Is it more, less, or the same?

- The same.

- It's the same.

So we say equal to.

So here's our equal sign.

Five is equal to five.

- But what's five plus five?

10!

- It's 10, but today we're working on greater than, less than and equal to.

So five is equal to five.

It is the same.

Alright, friends, let's say goodbye to our friends.

- Bye.

- Thanks for playing.