My son is in1 st grade and even i dont get this . does anyone know the answer 10+4 < _ +_ or 2+11 > _+_

Question

My son is in1 st grade and even i dont get this . does anyone know the answer 10+4 < _ +_ or 2+11 > _+_

Answer 1

lol, Don&#039;t be hard on yourself.  I believe you just fill in the blanks with any 2 combination numbers that make the equality true.

You could say 10+4&lt;8+8  

this is saying 10+4  which is 14, is less than 16.

For the other one:   2+11&gt;3+2  

in other words         13 is less than 5; you can use any two numbers as long as they add up to less than 13                                .

Hope this helps

Answer 2

The first one wants your son to come up with 2 numbers that can be added together to equal something GREATER than what 10 + 4 equals... So 10+5, or any combination that equals more than 14 would be correct. The second one wants him to come up with two numbers that, when added together, equal something less than 2+11... So 1+11, or 2+10, or anything that equals less than 13 will be correct.

Answer 3

Wow.  That is a bit abstract for first grade, though I think it&#039;s just a complex way to teach number theory.  Basically, what&#039;s 10+4?  14.  What&#039;s more than 14? 17 (or any other number &gt;14).  How do we make 17?  8+9.

Working with a number line will help - you can even make one with sidewalk chalk on the driveway that your child can walk along.  This should bring it more into their range of understanding.  Just take it backwards - what&#039;s more than 14?  (Walk or hop along the number lines.)  What&#039;s less than 13?  (Same thing.)  Ok, what do we add together to get the chosen number?  (Plug it into the equation.)

Does your teacher manual give any ideas on how to teach this?  Unless your 1st grader is advanced, or has had a lot of number theory lessons leading up to this, I&#039;d suggest a new curriculum - it&#039;s confusing.  Younger children need to have things that are concrete, manipulative based, and clearly teach the concepts.  After they understand those concepts and develop abstract thinking skills, they can move into things like this.  Variable problems for a 1st grader should be like 5 + __ = 8.

Anyway, hope that helps!

Answer 4

Hannah has it right, the spaces are two random numbers that you fill in to make lesser than or greater than the two numbers previous.

So, what two numbers added together are greater than 14, and what two numbers added together are less than 13.

Answer 5

actually i think you typed it wrong, if I&#039;m right it should be 10+4&gt;_+_   or   2+11&lt;10+4, you need to switch the arrows. and to fill in the blanks you would just do 10+4&gt;2+11  or  2+11&lt;10+4.

hope this helps!

(this is gizmo&#039;s friend kayla)

Answer 6

To me, 10+4 &lt; _ +_ or 2+11 &gt; _+_ reads as: 10+4 is less than ?+? or 2+11 is more than ?+?.

In other words: 14 is less than ?+? (what+what)

                           13 is more than ?+? (what+what)

I&#039;d just pick two random numbers that added together exceed 14; and two random numbers that added together come to less than 13.

For instance: 10+4&lt;11+5 (14 is less than 16) and 2+11&gt;1+10 (13 is more than 11).

&#039;Course this assumes that despite what the first poster reckons you did type it right!