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Compare three-digit numbers: 2nd grade math

Compare three-digit numbers. A free 2nd grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: compare three-digit numbers.

Teach (10 min)

  • To compare, look at the biggest place first. If it matches, look at the next place.
  • The open mouth of < or > always faces the bigger number.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/whole.cmp3?lesson=2-compare&at=2

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Compare three-digit numbers (2nd grade)

  1. Which sign fits: <, = or >?
  2. Which sign fits: <, = or >?
  3. Which sign fits: <, = or >?
  4. Which sign fits: <, = or >?
  5. Which sign fits: <, = or >?
  6. Which sign fits: <, = or >?
  7. Which sign fits: <, = or >?
  8. Which sign fits: <, = or >?
  9. Which sign fits: <, = or >?
  10. Which sign fits: <, = or >?
  11. Which sign fits: <, = or >?
  12. Which sign fits: <, = or >?
Key
  1. 96 > 76
  2. 82 < 96
  3. 70 < 90
  4. 26 < 27
  5. 59 > 55
  6. 17 < 60
  7. 34 < 60
  8. 571 > 517
  9. 454 = 454
  10. 286 < 504
  11. 709 < 714
  12. 883 > 876

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