Comparing two positive or negative numbers

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1
Put in the sign, < > or =:8-2
2
Put in the sign, < > or =:-1110
3
Put in the sign, < > or =:312
4
Put in the sign, < > or =:810
5
Put in the sign, < > or =:77
6
Put in the sign, < > or =:910
7
Put in the sign, < > or =:-7-10
8
Put in the sign, < > or =:12-4
9
Put in the sign, < > or =:-118
10
Put in the sign, < > or =:108
11
Put in the sign, < > or =:-3-10
12
Put in the sign, < > or =:-3-2
13
Put in the sign, < > or =:-11-7
14
Put in the sign, < > or =:-61
15
Put in the sign, < > or =:-4-4
16
Put in the sign, < > or =:-1-1
17
Put in the sign, < > or =:-46
18
Put in the sign, < > or =:-87
19
Put in the sign, < > or =:-5-11
20
Put in the sign, < > or =:-8-12

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 12.
53% of them have exactly one negative.
26% of them have no negative in them at all.
A careful solution takes 1 written step on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 97% of the problems: the two were compared by size alone.
Answers are a short answer exactly as the problem asks for it.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 202 different ones, 84% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 6 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.