Teaching “Less, More, and Equal” Using a Graph
Cindy Johnson | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas
Here is one way a teacher can practice the concepts of less, more, and equal with students. Using a “weather graph board” the class tracks the number of days that are sunny, cloudy, etc., the teacher asks students to point out which one has less or more and so on.
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Okay friends, today we’re going to work on our weather graph board. Let’s take a look at our weather graph board. We have, does anybody remember what this one is? Windy. Let’s count how many days have been windy, ready? Good. What does the umbrella mean? Rainy, good let’s count them. Ready? Good, and what is Mr. sunshine, he has sunglasses on. How many, what are those days? Sunny, let’s give them a count. Whoa, that’s a lot of sunny days. How about this one? Cloudy. Here we go one, two, three, four. And foggy, remember fog is when It’s kind of grey outside side and you can’t see very well. How many is there? One. Very good. Okay, oh Liam, I’m going to call on you in just one second, okay? All right, what, Mr. Blake could you tell me, could you come to point to the one, which one has the most? Sunny. Very good. Liam, fine in, could you come and tell me which one has the least? Foggy. Very good. Julian, do you know any that might be equal? Which ones are they? Windy and cloudy. Very good. How about Mia. Miss Mia could you tell me which one has less? Less, which one has less? Which one has less, not very much. Do you remember that one? Foggy. Very good. Okay, Liam, which one has more? What is that one? Sunny. Very good. All right, and let’s see Miss. Mavia, are there any that are the same? Very good which ones are those again? Very good, give yourselves a clap.
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