Keith McBride: INT 925 Project #2

 

Title

Less than/greater than monsters

 

Grade

First

 

Montana Standard

Math Standard 1:  Students engage in the mathematical processes of problem solving and reasoning estimation, communication, connections and applications, and using appropriate technology.

Math Standard 2:  Students demonstrate understanding of and an ability to use numbers and operations.

 

Objective

  1. Students will make a <> monster.
  2. Students use their ÒmonstersÓ to demonstrate the concept of less than and greater than.
  3. Students will use their ÒmonsterÓ to demonstrate the understanding of numbers in a hands-on demonstration.

Materials

Drawing/coloring utensils

Construction paper

A < shape cut out of a sturdy material

Glue

The book The Hungry Thing

 

Procedure

  1. Read the book The Hungry Thing.
  2. Discuss how the very hungry thing likes to eat.  When he can eat 3 or 8 cookies the monster eats 8 because 8 is more than (greater than) 3.
  3. Teacher will use the <> monster to demonstrate the monster eating 8 instead of 3

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  1. Students will decorate their <> monster.
  2. Students will mini cookies with their monster.  They will arrange 3 cookies and 8 cookies and place the <> monster in the correct direction. 
  3. The teacher will show different number of cookies and the students have to face their monster in the correct direction.
  4. After they understand the <> monster, they can become their own monster.  In two groups of cookies they decide which number is greater and eat the cookies.  Then they use the less than amount to separate into two groups and eat the less than amount.

 

Evaluation

The teacher can determine is the students understand the concept of less than or greater than.  Also, if the students understand the direction the <> ÒmonsterÓ or symbol should face.