Comparing Sets

I. Learning Objectives Cognitive: Psychomotor: Affective: II. Learning Content Skill: Reference: Materials: Value: Comparing sets using the expressions fewer than and more than BEC PELC I A 1.5.1 & 5.2 spoon, forks, cut outs, other objects with materials available in the locality, picture cards. Obedience Compare 2 sets using the expressions fewer than and more than Write the terms for comparing objects correctly Follow the teacher's instructions carefully

III. Learning Experiences A. Preparatory Activities 1. Drill Ordering sets greatest to least, least to greatest Use picture cards, objects like straws, popsicle sticks. Have a pupil come up front and arrange the objects correctly and describethem. 2. Review a. Arrange sets in one-more order. Example: b. Give the missing set (one-less order). Use picture cards.

3. Motivation Playing Simon Says - Spread 2 sheets of a newspaper on the floor separately. - Call on 7 pupils and tell them to follow what Simon (the teacher) says Example: Simon says make a group one less than the other. - One group with 3 pupils will stay in one newspaper, the other group with 4 pupils qill stay on the other newspaper. - Ask pupil to tell how many pupils are in each group. B. Developemental Acticities 1. Presentation a. Ask, what do you use in eating your food? (spoon and fork) Show a set of 2 forks and a set of 3 spoons. Ask a pupil to compare the forks with the spoons by matching then oneto-one. Which is more? Which is fewer?

b. Lead the class to say, 'The forks are fewer than the spoons' or the other way 'The spoons are more than the forks' c. Group the children into three. Distribute different objects to each group. Let them compare the sets they formed using 'fewer than more than'. Encourage the children to show to their classmates what their group has done. d. Distribute sets of cutouts with different numbers of objects and have the pupils compare them using more than/fewer than. 2. Generalization Ask: What expressions do we use to compare sets? We use the expressions fewer than or more than to compare sets. C. Application Answer these questions: 1. Which set contains more objects than set A?

*Valuing: Talk about what happens if pupils obey/follow what the teacher says. Ask: What kind of pupils are you? (Obedient) IV. Evaluation A. Compare Set A and Set B. Underline the correct answer fewer than or more than.

B. Write the letter of the correct asnwer.

C. Compare the following sets. Write more than or fewer than on the blank.

V. Assignment Draw the missing set.