Fun With Estimation

Shoot and score with three basketball-themed lessons about decimals. Young mathematicians compare game statistics, make trash can hoops, and play a data spinner game to practice identifying digits and values within decimal numbers.

Get your groove on, let your talents shine, and be ready to rock with a highly engaging, entertaining activity that teaches math patterns and numbers through dancing. A dancing lesson that features math strategies, as well as STEM, is a...

Learning to skip count has never been as much fun as it is with this collection of worksheets and activities.

Creative and fun lessons help kids get some hands-on experience with fractions. The resource includes 50 innovative ways to teach kids about equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions, using fractions in money math and...

It's Pi Day, and that doesn't mean it's time for dessert. Celebrate March 14th (3/14) in style with a fun collection of activities. Learners keep track of their own progress as they answer questions about the history of pi, find their...

Third graders play the game, "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" while subtracting using estimation. I really like the format of this fun game, which utilizes the lifelines and strategies found in the real game on television.

Learners estimate the number of items in a jar and write their estimate boldly on a piece of paper. They line up holding their numbers. Then, they calculate the median, mean, mode and average of the guesses.

Young scholars, 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.

This lesson has fourth and fifth graders examine how to add mixed fractions with and without renaming. They apply the strategies to problems based on recipes, using a recipe of trail mix as an example. Bring some trail mix with you to...

This is a twist on the old "guess how many jellybeans" game. Using estimation and math skills, learners participate in a fun "mystery jars" activity, trying to make educated guesses at how many objects are in two jars. The basic activity...