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What made the symbols finally click for me is drawing a small number line with the arrows on either end and erasing the line.

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.

I find the metaphors stupid when most of us can just look at the symbol: the vertex side has less distance between segments than the open side.

When I write proofs, I hate using both < & >, because the redundant complexity of juggling both orders slows me down. Just sticking to a single order like < ≤ and arranging values in that single order eased reasoning quite a bit.

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.

This never made sense. The larger animal would eat the smaller one.

I still hear my kindergarten teacher's voice every time I look at an analog clock..."little hand points the hour"

Most Indonesian school teach to use use it like l> "besar" and l< "kecil". Besar = big, kecil = small

The greedy bird eats the biggest number

lots of food > not much food

I learned it as Pacman. You could draw the rest of the circle and put a little eye in there.

I learnt it the exact same way! 😄