Compare Numbers Using a Number Line
Use a number line to compare two-digit numbers in first grade by checking plotted positions (right is greater, left is less).
1st Grade - Math - Plot, Order, & Compare Two-Digit Numbers
About This Skill
Strengthen number comparison abilities in first grade by leveraging the number line. This skill focuses on plotting two-digit numbers on a number line to visually determine their relationship. Students learn that the number located further to the right on the line is greater (>), while the number further to the left is less (<).
Skills & Topics
- Number Sense and Operations
- Comparing & Ordering
- Whole Numbers
- Place Value
- Quantities
- Counting Numbers
- Number Line
- 2-Digit Numbers
- Comparing
- Ordering
Curriculum Alignment
- 1.NBT.B.3: Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.
- AC9M1N01: recognise, represent and order numbers to at least 120 using physical and virtual materials, numerals, number lines and charts
- ENG-MATH-Y1-NPV.4: Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least.
- NY-1.NBT.3
- ZA.CAPS.MATH.G1.NOR.1.4