Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To Symbols

I made these for Robbie last night after watching him play on Time4Learning before bed. He grasps the concept of more and less, but isn't familiar with some alternative terms (greater than, fewer, etc.). As I was thinking about how to introduce these terms, I thought I'd also make a way for him to become familiar with the mathematic symbols for these terms.



These can be used with concrete manipulatives, dice, flash cards, playing cards, my math cards (shown) or anything else you can think of! I also made him some new cards out of unruled index cards and construction stickers.

As you can see, I cut craft sticks and glued them to make the symbols. I simply colored them with markers (which actually gives them a nice stained effect since it isn't opaque) to make them stand out.