Tiered Lesson Plan Template

Grade Level: Second

Title of Lesson: Less Than, Equal or Greater Than

Time Frame: 60 minutes

Lesson Essential Questions and/or Objectives:

Sunshine State Standard or Common Core Standard:

The students will compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of
the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols.
MAFS.1.NBT.2.3

Tier 1 Teacher Focused

1) First, refresh students on how to tell

2)
3)
4)

which of two numbers value is

bigger/smaller based on
Tier 2 Student Focused:
MAFS.2.NBT.1.1.
Second, introduce the terms: Greater
1) After the group activity students
than, Less than and equal to then show
will complete practice worksheet
the symbols that represent them.
pages. Share & Show questions
Explain that we can use these symbols
to compare two numbers, show some
with a partner and then On Your
example problems.
Own questions independently.
Give real world examples such as: There
are three eggs in the blue nest and 5 in
the red nest which nest has more eggs
and which symbol could we use to
compare these two numbers?

Tier 3 Group Focused:

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1) Students will be paired together.

2) They will use their close pin to pick up as
3)
4)

many Swedish fish as they can in 15

seconds.
They will use their greater than, less
than or equal cards to compare their fish
to their partners.
Teacher will walk around to check if they
compared right and then repeat 2 and 3
a couple of times.

Background/previous knowledge:
MAFS.2.NBT.1.1
Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6
ones. Understand the following as special cases:
100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens called a "hundred."
The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and 0 tens and 0
ones).

Materials list:
Students:
(Group)
*Close pin
* A bowl of Swedish fish (or whatever you have, but the fish make since with the alligator cards)
* Each pair will have three cards: one greater than, one less than and one equal to card with the corresponding symbol on them and a picture of an
alligator with its mouth open on the greater than and less than cards.
(Individual)
*Practice Workbooks
Teacher:
*Timer

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Assessment (how will you test for mastery):

There will be an assessment quiz at the end of the unit.
Additional Accommodations (what will you do for the ESE or ESOL child):
*Will be pulled to work on the practice workbook sheets with the teacher.
* Teacher will model with the alligator cards and fish and explain that the alligator wants to eat the greater number of fish.
* Could also use base ten blocks and record numbers onto a place value chart.

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