Question

Help! Is -1 greater than or = to 2

Answer 1

Here is a useful number line.

Answer 2

You are more familiar with positive numbers than with negative numbers, so let's look only at positive numbers and zero for now.

Answer 3

Ok

Answer 4

What is greater, 1 or 3?

Answer 5

3

Answer 6

less then

Answer 7

open circle to the write

Answer 8

Right. You can ask more similar questions, and you will see that in every case, a number to the right is greater than a number to its left on the number line.
For example, 4 > 1
3 > 0
10 > 5
Every number is greater than numbers to its left.

Answer 9

Now look at your numbers.
-1 and 2