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Estimating Before Multiplying
In this estimating before multiplying worksheet, students interactively answer 10 multiple choice questions about estimating, then click to check their answers.
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Solving Problems
Second graders become familiar with need strategies for computation of money problems and estimating sums. In this computation instructional activity, 2nd graders solve real life problems to understand estimation and money problems.
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Why Guess When You Can Estimate
They apply various strategies in their estimations. They analyze the differences between guessing and estimating. They estimate the number of beans and jellybeans in egg cartons and jars respectively.
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Ready to Round
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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Probability Games and Activities, Unit 10
Looking for tangible ways to practice probability with your class? Through 4 activities, students practice with experimental probability, using math to make educated guesses, then testing it through physically completing the experiment....
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Telling Time as an Everyday Use of Numbers
How can we estimate time? Have your young mathematicians make a clock. Then they compare and contrast types of clocks. They practice writing times in two different ways and make a book about telling time.
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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Cigarette Smoking
Learners analyze the monetary cost associated with smoking. Students use statistics to determine life expectancy and cost associated with smoking.
CK-12 Foundation
CK-12 Middle School Math Concepts - Grade 6
Twelve chapters cover a multitude of math concepts found in the Common Core standards for sixth grade. Each title provides a brief explanation of what you will find inside the chapter—concepts from which you can click on and learn more...
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Online Math Problems and Estimation
In this online math problems worksheet, students complete a variety of exercises including finding the missing numbers in eight math problems, two money and estimation calculations and estimating the difference in ten math problems by...
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Grade 5 Math: Fractions, Decimals, Percents 1
In this grade 5 learning exercise, 5th graders round off 3,485,379.195 to the assigned place values. They round to millions, hundred thousands, thousandths, tenths, and thousands.
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Playing with Remainders
Fifth graders explore how people handle remainders in real life. In this remainders math activity, 5th graders participate in skits to show what to do with remainders. Students complete worksheets with word problems.
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Equal Estimates- Decimals
In this decimal estimation instructional activity, learners estimate a set of addition and subtraction problems, rounding to the nearest whole number, then place each problem in the box that contains its estimated sum or difference.
Indiana Science
How Many E’s?
Seventh graders explore random sampling by estimating the number of e's on the newspaper. They explain the possible error sources for this type of sampling, and compare the accuracy of sampling a small and large population. This is a...
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Math in English Skills VI Exercise Book
If you need a comprehensive math packet specifically intended for learners who are struggling with fractions, look no further. Individuals will be able to practice comparing, simplifying, adding, and subtracting fractions in an enjoyable...
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Carbon Dioxide Exercise
Students work in groups, plotting carbon dioxide concentrations over time on overheads and estimating the rate of change over five years. Stacked together, the overheads for the whole class show an increase on carbon dioxide over five...
EngageNY
Square Roots
Investigate the relationship between irrational roots and a number line with a resource that asks learners to put together a number line using radical intervals rather than integers. A great progression, they build on their understanding...
International Technology Education Association
Sizing Up the Clouds
How much rain can that cloud make? Through a simulation, the class estimates the amount of candy rain contained in different cup clouds. After probing the clouds using different methods, class members adjust their estimates. Participants...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Modeling: Making Matchsticks
Math: The only subject where the solution to a problem is seven million matches. Young scholars first complete an assessment task estimating the number of matches they can make from a tree of given dimensions. They then evaluate provided...
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Estimate the Proper Fractions
In this estimation worksheet, students estimate 7 given fractions to the nearest whole number. Answers are included on page 2.
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Make a 100
Second graders develop an understanding of 100 and the quantity for which it stands and examine the relationship between 100 and 10 by estimating the number of jelly beans in a jar.
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Covering and Surrounding
Students develop techniques for estimating the area of a circle and use ideas about area and perimeter to solve practical problems. For this area and perimeter lesson, students apply the concepts of perimeter and area to the solution of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Lining up the Decimals
Fifth graders order decimals from least to greatest and greatest to least. In this decimal order instructional activity, 5th graders complete an online review of comparing 2 digit numbers. Students then complete a decimal order card game...
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Decimal Division Level 2
In this math learning exercise, students solve twelve decimal division problems. The dividends of each problem have decimals in the tenths place.
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Multiplication of Decimals
In this multiplication of decimals worksheet, students problem solve twenty five equations that deal with multiplication of decimals and rounding answers to the nearest whole number.