Coach: look at the exit check results and the paper practice. Go back over every item a student missed: read it together, have the student explain their thinking, then show the correct thinking. Use the reteach routine below for anyone who missed two or more. Students who got everything right take the stretch task.

🔄 Reteach it (missed two or more)

Build both numbers as cube towers and stand them side by side. The taller tower is greater. Then find both numbers on the number line to connect the two ideas.

Compare numbers far apart (2 and 9) before numbers close together (6 and 7).

Towers of 2 and 9. Greater?
Answer: 9.
Towers of 5 and 3. Less?
Answer: 3.
Towers of 4 and 4.
Answer: Equal.

🚀 Stretch it (got everything right)

Name a number that is greater than 5 but less than 8.
Answer: 6 or 7.
How many more is 9 than 6? Build towers to find out.
Answer: 3 more.