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Ordering Rational Numbers and Finding Their Approximate
Middle schoolers explore the concept of ordering rational numbers on a number line. They represent rational numbers as decimals and percents. Pupils create a foldable about converting fractions to decimals to percents, and use a...
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Rice Math
Sixth graders calculate the amount of rice there will be if the amount is doubled everyday. In this multiplying lesson, 6th graders are given an amount of rice that is grown each day. Students then calculate how much rice there will be...
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Approximating Measures
Fourth graders complete a worksheet about approximate measurements. In this instructional activity on approximation, 4th graders compare the wingspan of a given bird to the wingspan of other birds and classroom objects.
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Estimating and Approximation in Four Exercise Sets
In this estimation worksheet, students estimate in seventeen multi-part questions divided into four exercise sets. The solutions are provided.
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Rounding Off and Approximation
In this rounding instructional activity, students round numbers to the given place value. They draw models of each given situations. This one-page instructional activity contains 8 problems.
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Estimation and Approximation
In this estimation and approximation instructional activity, students estimate multiplication and division problems containing decimals. They measure given objects, determine the possible error, the lower bound and the upper bound....
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Estimation and Approximation
For this estimation and approximation worksheet, students determine the estimated value of given multiplication and division problems containing decimals. They round answers to the nearest whole number. This two-page worksheet contains...
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Galaxies and the Universe
If Earth was formed 4600 million years ago, and the sun revolves about the center of the Milky Way once every 250 million years, how many revolutions have occurred? Students answer this question and ten more, all providing students with...
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Analyzing Solutions Computed Using Euler's Method
In this analyzing solutions learning exercise, students use Euler's Method to estimate the value of given functions. They estimate solutions using the piecewise-linear function model and sketch the information onto a graph. This...
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Successive Approximation and Euler's Method
In this approximation worksheet, students use the Euler's method to interpret a piecewise linear function. They explore why the approximation produced using a smaller stepsize is a better approximation. This four-page worksheet...
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Irrational Numbers
In this irrational numbers worksheet, 9th graders solve 10 different problems that include determining the approximations of various irrational numbers. First, they solve each irrational number in the first set to the nearest tenth....