In life we say words like "Less than" or "More than" and at some point, some smart math person said, "Let's save some time and replace those words with symbols." And in addition to being able to use these symbols to compare things, now people use them when doing math, writing code, and more.
3.6 oz > weight of a letter (to mail)
And we can use what we learned about number lines to prove it!
Dismiss them having them say to each other, "The bigger number is always on the right."