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2nd grade · Math · Unit 2 of 19

Bigger or Smaller

Compare and order numbers

What your child practices

Comparing and ordering numbers, using <, > and =, and noticing numbers close to 50.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 2.2(C); 2.2(D) · naming a number greater or less than another, and comparing with >, < and =

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Compare the tens first. More tens means a bigger number.
  2. If the tens match, compare the ones.
  3. To order numbers, put the smallest first.

Example: Which is bigger: 47 or 53? Tens: 4 tens and 5 tens. 5 tens is more, so 53 is bigger. Answer: 53

Bigger or Smaller in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 2 of 19 in 2nd grade Math, after Numbers to 1000 and before Skip Counting.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Tap the numbers from smallest to biggest.

    • 65
    • 58
    • 24
    • 45

  2. Question 2

    Which number is bigger?

    • 46
    • 59

  3. Question 3

    Which number is close to 50?

    • 54
    • 22
    • 93

  4. Question 4

    Tap the numbers from smallest to biggest.

    • 66
    • 59
    • 37
    • 47

  5. Question 5

    Which number is bigger?

    • 76
    • 72

  6. Question 6

    Which sign goes in the box?

    42 42

    • <
    • =
    • >

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