Do they teach this in Primary School now? I’d have thought it was still addition, subtraction, timetables, long division etc; I first encountered these symbols learning BASIC at home.
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I started elementary school in 1999, yes absolutely.
I have to read random passwords to people, nobody knows which is the greater (>) and less (<) than symbol.
When I encounter this, I have to imagine a context as I would read it. eg. X > Y as X is greater than Y. Because <> are just angle brackets to me.
Because they are all just knowing it points to the bigger number. >100 and 100< are interchangeable.
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In Dutch the word for smaller is kleiner.
So I always think, can it make the letter K
2 < 3 2 smaller than 3 < K
no K
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I learnt it the exact same way! 😄
I learned it as Pacman. You could draw the rest of the circle and put a little eye in there.
I still hear my kindergarten teacher's voice every time I look at an analog clock..."little hand points the hour"
The greedy bird eats the biggest number
lots of food > not much food
This never made sense. The larger animal would eat the smaller one.
The crocodile wants to eat the larger child
When I was first learning these symbols in kindergarten, I understood how to use them, but I couldn't read them right. If I saw 2 < 3 and had to say what it was out loud, I'd say "3 is greater than 2." I learned the proper way quickly though with some help from my teach though. No idea why that memory stuck with me.
Most Indonesian school teach to use use it like l> "besar" and l< "kecil". Besar = big, kecil = small