Aritz Cardenas

Math Concept: Number Sense: Comparing Numbers

Grade: Kindergarten
CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.C.7: Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.


Big Ideas: Comparing two numbers in order to see which one is
greater (more) or lesser (less).

Prior Knowledge: (1) Counting verbally to 10 by ones, (2) Identifying written numerals 0-
10, (3) Understand and knowing the relationship between numbers and quantities up to 5,
then to 10 and connect counting to cardinality.

Opening Question: Looking at the pictures of the two pumpkins, which one is the bigger?

Expected Student Responses:
The one that is fat (or fatter)
The one that is high (or higher)
It goes up more
The bigger one.
The one that is tall (or taller)
The other one is small (or smaller)

Management:
Students will write names on own paper
Students will need to circle the larger pumpkin
Teacher will bring students in as whole class and ask how students know that one
pumpkin was greater than another.

Academic Language Check:
Fatter: wider
Goes up more: taller
More on paper: Greater
The other one is little: Less than

Debrief: Students will look at another picture (pictures of pigs). Students will begin using
the words greater and less than on their sentences. Teacher will draw two circles on
board (one is greater and the other one is less than). Teacher will write down greater
under the larger circle and less than under the smaller circle. Students will follow teacher
by writing down example on board. Also, the teacher will point to one of the two pictures,
and students will take turns answering which one is greater/less than by following the
sentence frame below:

Lesson Goal #1: Learning and using the terms greater and lesser.
The picture that Mr. Cardenas is pointing to is _______________ than the other picture.

Summarize what we have learned: Students, in partners, will be given numerous pairs of
pictures; to determine which picture of the pair is the greater one and which one is the
smaller one. Students will be required to label under each picture, which one is greater and
smaller by writing greater under the larger picture and less than under the smaller
picture.

Formative Assessment (Exit Ticket, Ticket Out the Door, Show What You Know):

Draw two candy bars. Make one of them bigger that the other one. Label the bigger candy
bar by writing greater, and the smaller candy bar as less than.








Tiered Lesson:

1. Group 1: Draw two pictures, making one greater than the other one. Label
2. Group 2: Which picture on the board is greater: The picture of the dog or the picture
of the cat? How do you know?

Question: On this board, how many orange circles are on the board? How many blue
squares are on the board? Which color has more shapes on the board?
Expected Student Responses:
There are 6 orange circles.
There are 4 blue squares.
There are more orange circles than blue squares (or the opposite response)

Management
Students will look on the board silently for 20 seconds. After the allotted
time, students will share with their ear partner their responses.

Academic Language Check:
A lot of: More
Not so much: Less
More: Greater


Debrief:
I will have class back as whole group, seated close to whiteboard. One thing I will have
students do is to practicing a sentence frame with them. Students will read aloud together
(with teacher model) and begin every sentence with, There are _______ circles/squares on
Lesson Goal #2: Having students look numbers and groups,
comparing which one has more or less.
the board. Teacher will go over sentence frame when they give their answers. After we do
this, teacher will put another problem on the board. Students will see a problem with 5
gold stars on one side and 7 blue hearts on another. Using our sentence frames, some
students will volunteer to answer the question on the board. They will use the first
sentence frame for each set of shapes. Then, they will determine which group of shapes
have more or less. Using the new sentence frame There are more ___________than
______________. and , there are less ________ than ________. Teacher will also do the same
exercise, but instead comparing two numbers (such as 5 and 7), and asking them which one
is more.


Summarize what we have learned:
Students will be able to do individual practice by working on a worksheet that asks
students to determine which pair of numbers is greater. Using the comparing numbers pdf
(see attached), students will answer the four problems.

Formative Assessment:

Students will need to draw two groups of shapes. One group needs to be greater than the
other one. Then, students need to label which pile is more. Finally, students need to write
the piles in its numerical form.