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- Grade Range
- 1st - 5th
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Students, in remedial math groups, work on estimating with money. They particpate at their own level with estimation activites increasing incrementally. They hone estimation skills using a variety of counting and group techniques. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students utilize their knowledge of measurement in making accurate measurements and estimations. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students practice estimation skills with the video series "Interactions: Real Math, Real Careers". They complete a hands-on activity for estimating large numbers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students explore estimating and measurement with the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. They read and discuss the story, estimate and measure their own height, circumference, and length of their foot, and draw and paint a giant using estimated measurements. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 7th
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Students explore estimation. They estimate distance, weight, temperature and elapsed time. Students record their estimates and justify their estimations wtih a written response. After estimating, students take the actual measurements of the items. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students use mental math. They describe reasonable and unreasonable sums and differences. Students use mental math to find the sums and differences of addition and subtraction facts at random. They solve addition and subtraction facts displayed by the teacher. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students estimate, solve, and check a series of addition and subtraction number and word problems. They write their estimates on a recording sheet, compute and write the answer in the next column, and check their answer with a calculator. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students estimate and calculate the number of M&M's that are in a bag of cookies. They separate and group the M&M's into color groups, count the candies in each group and the total amount, and create a graph of the results. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students challenge "common knowledge" against newly learned estimation strategies and put those strategies into use. They consider variables in estimating different groups of objects and practice skills of representing numbers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students complete math problems through rounding and estimating. They visit a given website where students select answers to increasingly harder problems. Students complete quizzes to estimation problems. Afterwards, they demonstrate their skill through completing rfollow-up problems. Full Review »

