Inequalities - more than and less than

You will use a lot of different symbols when you are working with numbers. You probably know some of them already.
       +    -    x    ÷   =
These are all mathematical symbols. There are also symbols to show 'less than' and 'more than'.

What symbol would you use to could show 1p is less than £1 ?
        1p   ?   £1

The symbol to show 'less than' is <.   It looks like an equals sign squashed to a point at one end.
The two ends are not equal to show that the numbers are not equal.

So to say that 1p is less than £1 we write    1p  <  £1

What symbol could show that £1 is more than 1p ?
        £1   ?   1p
We can use the < sign if we turn it around. This is the greater than sign >
Then we can use it like this     £1  >  1p
The widest part of the arrow is always next to the largest amount. The pointed end is on the small side.