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It Takes Ten

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Review and use standard units of measure with your math class. They move from station to station estimating and measuring length, volume, weight, and area. At each station they estimate and measure, and then compute the difference...
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Industrialization, Chemicals and Human Health - Math

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the units of the metric system, and practice estimating measures before actually converting between the two systems of measurement. They participate in activities to visualize a concentration of one part per million....
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National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Business Management and Administration: Compound Interest - A Millionaire's Best Friend

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Many math concepts are covered through this resource: percentages, decimals, ratios, exponential functions, graphing, rounding, order of operations, estimation, and solving equations. Colorful worksheets and a link to a Google search for...
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Rational Exponents—What are 2^1/2 and 2^1/3?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Are you rooting for your high schoolers to learn about rational exponents? In the third installment of a 35-part module, pupils first learn the meaning of 2^(1/n) by estimating values on the graph of y = 2^x and by using algebraic...
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Fermi Number

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
A fermi number is a rough estimate of a quantity that is difficult or impossible to measure. Individuals design a process for making an estimation of a given scenario. For example, they determine a plan for estimating the number of...
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Conducting a Simulation to Estimate the Probability of an Event

For Teachers 7th Standards
How can you complete a simulation when it is not practical to determine the probability of an event? Class members learn that in some situations, it is not feasible to find the probability of an event, but they can estimate it by running...
Activity
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Logistic Growth Model, Explicit Version

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Via the concrete setting of estimating the population of the US, your algebra learners are introduced to a logistic growth model. Comparing and contrasting logistic, exponential, linear and quadratic models, to see which fits the data...
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Estimation Using Goldfish Crackers: Math

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore estimation and rounding concepts using goldfish crackers and a song! They solve problems by estimating and rounding numbers and pick numbers within reason to represent certain objects.
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Ready to Round

For Teachers 1st
First graders are introduced to the concept of rounding to the nearest ten through the use of a number line created from a hundreds chart.
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Estimating Turtle Size and Age

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students investigate how to estimate the age and size of turtles, and examine variability in scientific data. They read an informational handout, identify the parts of the shell, measure the shell and estimate the age, and record the...
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Presenting the Hogg Family

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students practice real life problem solving and rounding skills. They determine the amount of coal used each year by a family of four to opertate all of their electrical appliances.
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Round to the Nearest Thousand

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this rounding worksheet, students examine 9 different numbers, write the 2 numbers each number falls between and then round each number to the nearest thousand. Next, students solve 15 fill in the blank problems where they round...
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Place Value

For Students 4th - 5th
In this rounding and place value worksheet, students solve 50 problems in which the value of specified digits is worked out. Students round numbers to different places up to the hundred thousands. This page is intended as an online...
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Estimate Sums

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this estimating sums worksheet, students solve 6 word problems where they estimate the sum of 3 digit numbers by rounding to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000.
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Adjusting the Quotient

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students solve division problems. In this division lesson, students review estimating and how to figure out if their estimate is too large or too small. Students solve division problems and use their estimating skills to adjust the...
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Estimate Division Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
In this estimating division practice worksheet, students solve 8 problems that require them to estimate the division by rounding the numbers in the problems to the nearest 10.
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How Big is a Foot?

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice nonstandard measurement and estimating and measuring lengths of objects.
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Covering and Surrounding

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students develop techniques for estimating the area of a circle and use ideas about area and perimeter to solve practical problems. In this area and perimeter lesson, students apply the concepts of perimeter and area to the solution of...
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Rounding Numbers

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math activity, students round forty-four words to the nearest hundreds place. The numbers on the activity range from eight thousand to almost ten thousand.
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Unit 21 Section 5: Estimating the Number of Successes

For Students 7th - 8th
In this probability instructional activity, learners solve six short answer problems. Students enter their answers in the boxes provided and click on the answer button to check for correctness.
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Circumference Review

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this circumference lesson plan, learners review how to find the diameter and circumference of a circle, they apply their skills to a real life application. Young scholars are presented with the task of determining the circumference of...
Interactive
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Pythagorean Theorem

For Students 6th - 10th
In this measurement learning exercise, students will be given 2 sides of a right triangle, they will determine if the missing side is a leg or the hypotenuse. They will use the Pythagorean Theorem to create an equation and find the...
Worksheet
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Change a Fraction to a Decimal

For Students 5th - 7th
Upper elementary and middle schoolers change six fractions to decimals. The fractions involve one and two digit numbers. Pupils divide the larger number into the smaller, continuing the computations for six decimal places so they can...
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Fractions and Decimal Equivalents: Fifth Grade

For Teachers 5th
Sometimes a skeleton is all you get. This lesson outline provides teachers with a basic lesson flow. Pupils will pre-test, order place value names, use manipulatives, and build and compare numbers. How this is to be done is not...

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