Big & Small

🧮 MathPlaygroup – Prepages 2–5Free

Compare things by size: big and small, long and short, tall and short, heavy and light.

What your child learns

Example

An elephant is bigger than a mouse; a giraffe is taller than a dog.

Practice questions

A taste of the questions in BloomTracks – the app makes fresh ones every time and adjusts the level as your child answers.

  1. Question 1 · Level 1

    Which one is small?

    • 🦒
    • 🦒
    Show the answer

    Answer: 🦒

    The small one is the tiny one!

  2. Question 2 · Level 3

    Which one is the tallest?

    • 🚗
    • 🚗
    • 🚗
    Show the answer

    Answer: 🚗

    The tallest one is the third one.

  3. Question 3 · Level 5

    Which is lighter?

    • 🐻bear
    • 🐝bee
    Show the answer

    Answer: 🐝bee

    A bear is much heavier than a bee.

Try it at home

Line up three toys and ask which is tallest and which is shortest.

Key takeaway

Comparing means looking at two things and asking 'which has more?'

Practise big & small with Bloomie

Bloomie reads every question aloud, listens to spoken answers and adapts the difficulty one question at a time.

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