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Trace the math signs
Plus, minus, times, divide, equals, less than, greater than. A child meets all seven long before anyone teaches them to write one, and every arithmetic worksheet quietly assumes they can.
- Letter & A4, portrait or landscape
- Real stroke centrelines, not outlines
- Change the size and reprint
Trace the signs
NameStart on the dot and follow the arrow. Trace the faint ones, then write your own.
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About this sheet
These sit on the midline rather than the baseline, because that is where they sit in "3 + 4 = 7". It sounds like a detail and it is the difference between a sign that reads as part of the sum and one that reads as a mark underneath it. A plus written down at baseline height beside two numbers looks like a small t, and children who learn it there keep writing it there.
Why it is drawn this way
Less-than and greater-than are the two worth spending real time on, and the sheet says the same thing under both rows: the small end points at the smaller number. That is the only reliable way to remember them, and it is a sentence about the SHAPE rather than a mnemonic about an alligator — a child who has learned the alligator has to remember which end is hungry, which is one more thing than the shape itself requires.