Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Estimation
This lesson plan is designed to help students learn to make estimates. Resources are linked to help support the teacher and offer exploration and practice to students.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Estimation and Precise Measurement
Students will estimate various dimensions of objects located in a classroom. After estimations are completed, students will measure objects using appropriate measuring techniques for preciseness.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Estimating Quotients
This is a question about the best way to estimate the answer to a division problem. The answer offers a basic definition of estimation, along with several methods and the positive and negative aspects of each.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Comparison Estimator
Use this applet to practice your estimating skills comparing length, area, counting or a random sampling of those topics. You can also adjust the difficulty and the precision needed. The applet also lets you know how close you are to the...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Introduction to Numerical Analysis for Engineering
College-level electrical engineering course highlighting numerical analysis for engineers. This course introduces students to the formulation, methodology, and techniques for numerical solution of engineering problems. Course features...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Give an Inch, Take a Foot
Students practice measuring techniques by measuring different objects and distances around the classroom. They practice using different scales of measurement in metric units and estimation. Also, students learn how measurement is used in...