What this lesson shows
Fixes a mistake
852 > 582. 8 hundreds is more than 5 hundreds.
The worked example
The lesson works this one step by step: 852 ○ 582. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.
The steps
- Same digits, other places
- Line them up by place
- The hundreds decide
- Write < or >
Helping at home
The same digits in other places make another number. Line them up by place and compare the hundreds first.
If your kid gets stuck
Compare the hundreds first.
Watch it with Lux
With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.
Standards
- Common Core 2.NBT.A.4
Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
Matches a standard in all 50 states and DCSee each state's code
- Alabama MA19.2.9
- Alaska 2.NBT.4
- Arizona 2.NBT.A.4
- Arkansas 2.NPV.5
- California 2.NBT.A.4
- Colorado 2.NBT.A.4
- Connecticut 2.NBT.A.4
- Delaware 2.NBT.A.4
- District of Columbia 2.NBT.A.4
- Florida MA.2.NSO.1.3
- Georgia 2.NR.1.3
- Hawaii 2.NBT.A.4
- Idaho 2.NBT.A.4
- Illinois 2.NBT.A.4
- Indiana 2.NS.5
- Iowa 2.NBT.A.4
- Kansas 2.NBT.4
- Kentucky KY.2.NBT.4
- Louisiana 2.NBT.A.4
- Maine 2.NBT.A.4
- Maryland 2.NOS.A.4, 2.NOS.A.5
- Massachusetts 2.NBT.A.4
- Michigan 2.NBT.A.4
- Minnesota 2.1.1.5
- Mississippi 2.NBT.4
- Missouri 2.NBT.A.5
- Montana MT.2.NBT.4
- Nebraska 2.N.3.c
- Nevada 2.NBT.A.4
- New Hampshire 2.NBT.A.4
- New Jersey 2.NBT.A.4
- New Mexico 2.NBT.A.4
- New York NY-2.NBT.4
- North Carolina NC.2.NBT.4
- North Dakota 2.NO.NBT.2
- Ohio 2.NBT.4
- Oklahoma 2.N.1.7
- Oregon 2.NBT.A.4
- Pennsylvania CC.2.1.2.B.1
- Rhode Island 2.NBT.A.4
- South Carolina 2.NR.3.1
- South Dakota 2.NBT.A.4
- Tennessee 2.NBT.A.4
- Texas 111.4.b.2.C, 111.4.b.2.D, 111.4.b.2.E, 111.4.b.2.F
- Utah 2.NBT.4
- Vermont 2.NBT.A.4
- Virginia 2.NS.2f, 2.NS.2g, 2.NS.2h
- Washington 2.NBT.A.4
- West Virginia M.2.9
- Wisconsin M.2.NBT.A.4
- Wyoming 2.NBT.4
More in this unit
- Numbers to 1,000 three ways
- What is a digit worth?
- Zero holds the tens place
- Many names for one number
- New names, same number
- Comparing three-digit numbers
- Plot and order on a number line
- Read the line's labels
- Ten more, a hundred more
- Ten more past a hundred
- Adding to 1,000
- Subtracting to 1,000
- Subtraction does not turn around
- Trade only when you need to
- Skip-count past a hundred
- Counting by 25s
- Which estimate makes sense?