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< and > how do you remember how it goes? do you think of pacman eating the bigger number or the alligator eating the bigger number?

Clearly remember my grade 2 teacher explain how the crocodile is very hungry, and goes after the most people.

if it's balls, i'd say pacman.

anything else, the alligator

Even to this day, I have to stop every now and then and think to myself, "Alligator eats the bigger one."

=]

Left Hand makes a < (i.e.) Less Than. If left hand makes < then right hand makes >. Therefore: If left = < or less than then right = > or greater than.

I just always remember that the number facing the open side is greater then the other one.

Should remember our 'than' and 'then's while we're at it...

i like pacman

Tsume wrote:Even to this day, I have to stop every now and then and think to myself, "Alligator eats the bigger one."

=]

but the bigger one has more calories and that makes the alligator big , which means other alligators would eat it.

dom wrote:Clearly remember my grade 2 teacher explain how the crocodile is very hungry, and goes after the most people.

this

I never played pacman

The alligator eats the bigger number

hm..i just remember, no great secret. it's like North, East, South, West directions. or left and right. how do you remember those?

lol, although my french teacher taught us how to remember 'grave' and 'aigu' accent marks. she was like, cup your chin like you're tired and say "Go (grave), Away (aigu)". "Grave" is your left hand and "Aigu" is your right hand.

I laughed so hard at her.

i learned the alligator way from my dad

Aligator ftw, even though pacman is nice too

A long time ago it was a fishlike animal.


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It's greater thAn, not thEn.

takolin wrote:off-topic

It's greater thAn, not thEn.

i wanted to say that but i forgot omg

takolin wrote:A long time ago it was a fishlike animal.


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It's greater thAn, not thEn.

jezz now im gana get spelling lessons now? only reason i spell it with an e is because i say it with an e. i just get used to spelling it this way so shush.

By comparing the size of the sides

I can remember the mnemonic our teacher used when it was first introduced to us in primary school.

"Less than" is "kleiner als" in German, "more than" is "größer als".

"<" looks like a part of a "k" => "|<leiner als"
so ">" is the opposite.

That's how I remembered them , but once you work with them more, you automatically use them correctly.

If you actually think about the shape of the signs, it's self explanatory (cf. NuclearSilo's explanation )

NuclearSilo wrote:By comparing the size of the sides

This is what i used before but we were thought in 1st grade to think about pacman.

but after using it for more than 10 years, i think i can use those symbols without thinking about pacman and the alligator

It's just an easy symbol. If anyone mistakes it with other symbols, why didn't him mistake + with - ? ~.~

<insert higher #> Forward(>) than <insert lesser #>

<insert lesser #> Backward(<) than <insert higher #>

exp 34>32

in my head i see : Thirty-Four is more forward than 32, so its greater than 32 on a number line. By now though i just recognize the symbols like another letter and only have to resort to that method of thought when im really out of it....

The bigger side of the triangle goes for the bigger # I guess...

Never really had a problem understanding it, so not really a memory trick thing.

big goes to big small goes to small

well i just go by how it looks in programming iv used it a lot so its kinda hard to forget.

TOloseGT wrote:hm..i just remember, no great secret. it's like North, East, South, West directions. or left and right. how do you remember those?

lol, although my french teacher taught us how to remember 'grave' and 'aigu' accent marks. she was like, cup your chin like you're tired and say "Go (grave), Away (aigu)". "Grave" is your left hand and "Aigu" is your right hand.

I laughed so hard at her.

Never Eat Shredded Wheat
north-east-south-west clockwise

I was just taught what the symbol meant without alligators or pacman.

The alligator is greedy, so it always eats the biggest value.

I dont know, i just remember it. lol