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Jack and the Beanstalk Estimation
Students use estimation and pencil-paper calculations to help Jack and his mother solve a variety of life problems. They solve problems using various math operations, i.e., addition, subtraction, and measurement.
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A Relatively Far Out Idea: Estimating
Students investigate methods of estimating through cooperative group activities, hands-on activities, the use of tables and graphs and an interactive video.
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Estimation Investigation
Students view an interactive video to explore the concepts of estimation. They work cooperatively to measure, make comparisons, make predictions, and verify results.
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Guesstimate? NO Estimate!
Students discover the advantage of estimation over simple guessing using number relationships. They also discover how useful a mathematical tool estimation is in everyday life.
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Investigations into Estimations
Learners gain the powerful tools of estimation, prediction, and averaging and discover the importance these tools have in daily living.
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Finding Your Stride Length
Students participate in an estimation activity to determine the length of a hallway or to estimate how many people can fit in the school stadium or gym.
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It's Close Enough: Rounding and Estimation
Second graders round to the closest five, ten, and hundred. They use place-value concepts of grouping based upon powers of ten (thousandths, hundredths, tenths, ones, tens, hundreds, thousands) within the decimal number system.
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Examining Estimation
Second graders participate in various activities which help them explain and explain the difference between an estimate and an exact amount.
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Puzzling Perimeters
Third graders use estimation, fractions and decimals to determine the perimeter of objects in the classroom. They are given a worksheet with a list of the items on it. The worksheet has columns beside each of the items for estimation and...
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Cheerios- Not Just for Breakfast Anymore
Second graders measure surface area and perimeter using estimation. They complete a variety of measurement activities using Cheerios breakfast cereal.
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All I Want For Christmas
Fourth graders create wish lists from catalogues and sales ads based on a given budget. They add, subtract, estimate, and budget their given amount of money so they don't go over budget.
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Estimation and Measurement
Students use unconventional units of measure to estimate and measure.
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How Many Pennies?
Students estimate the number of pennies it takes to fill outlines of various basic shapes.
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French Fry Fun
In this estimation worksheet, learners estimate the number and length of french fries they have. There are 5 problems in a chart.
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Using the Newspaper to Teach Division and Time Conversion
Students use classified ads to select a career. For this math lesson, students convert the listed salary to an hourly, yearly, weekly and monthly rate. Students explain the process they used to find the various rates.
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Pea Brain! Explorations in Estimation
Students estimate how many peas fit in a container. In this science lesson, students calculate the weight of a pea and record it. They use this data to calculate how many peas fit in a human brain.
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Bean Bugs
Students practice how to estimate the size of a population of organisms. In this estimation lesson plan, students hypothesize how to estimate a population of organisms. Students learn to use a quadrat system to estimate population.
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Estimating With Fractions
Students explore fractions. For this fraction lesson, students estimate fractions and estimate sums of fractions. Students work with technology to develop math fluency.
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Introducing the Coordinate Plane
Fifth graders practice using estimation. In this estimation lesson, 5th graders add, subtract, multiple, and divide using whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Students decide upon instances when estimation is more appropriate than...
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Brain Booster: Estimation and Repeated Addition
In this daily math problem worksheet, students complete three activities that help use estimation and solve problems with repeated addition. Students show their work using pictures, numbers, or words and may use cubes, number lines or...
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Estimating
In this estimation worksheet, learners estimate in word problems and graphs. Students round numbers to help them complete the estimation problems.
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Shapes Estimation
In this shape estimation worksheet, students use their visual interpretation skills to estimate how many of the given small shapes will fit into the large shapes.
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Estimation of Sets of Items
In this estimation worksheet, students examine sets of items. They determine which set of items have closest to 13 in the first example, and which has closest to 10 in the second example.
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Estimate Weight or Volume
In this estimation with weight and volume worksheet, 5th graders solve and complete 6 problems that include estimating objects. First, they determine which item illustrated weighs more. Then, students determine which figure illustrated...