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

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