Help Decorate Santa’s Tree! A Comparing Numbers Christmas Game

Christmas is coming! Celebrate Christmas in the classroom with a challenging activity that engages your students and boosts their Christmas spirit. Students will help decorate Santa’s tree by using their place value knowledge to compare numbers using >, <, and =.

Compare Using Greater Than, Less Than, and Equal To With An Exciting Christmas Math Game

With this engaging activity, students will be tasked with looking at different numbers and number models and use them to compare two amounts using greater than, less than, and equal to symbols.

This activity is a Google Slides presentation that runs in presentation mode for progression through the series of 20 questions. If students get an answer correct, they progress to the next question. If they are incorrect, they are given a reminder and redirected to try again.

Easily Prepare This Comparing Numbers Activity

Assign this interactive activity to Google Classroom or use it as a whole-group instructional tool. Please be sure to have your students open and use the file in presentation mode.

This resource was created by Brittany Kellogg, a teacher in Ohio and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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