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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Estimating Measurements/using Models and Formulas: 3 D Figures

For Students 7th - 8th
Given application problems involving 3-dimensional figures, the student will estimate measurements, including surface area and/or volume, then solve the problems.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Estimating Measurements: Area

For Students 7th - 8th
Given problem situations, students will be able to estimate and solve for area of polygons and other shapes.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Estimating Capacity Using Water (Metric Units)

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students must estimate how much water is needed for a task, using metric units of capacity. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Practice: Estimate Volume (Milliliters and Liters)

For Students 3rd Standards
A practice quiz where students must choose the appropriate metric unit and amount to estimate the volume of each object. Includes hints.
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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Estimation

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Small Decimal Rounding to a Leading Digit

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students use leading digits to estimate decimal products and quotients. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Estimating and Counting Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The purpose of this lesson from the Illinois Institute of Technology is to review estimating and rounding to the nearest dollar as well as gain skills and practice in counting money. The students will define the meaning of estimate and...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Mixed Number Rounding to the Nearest Whole

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Round given mixed numbers to the nearest whole number.
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Handout
Fact Monster

Fact Monster: Rounding Numbers

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
The lesson explores how to round numbers. Explanations and examples are included in the tutorial.
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Handout
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Estimating Quotients

For Students 4th - 7th
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.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Estimate to Add and Subtract Multi Digit Whole Numbers

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Use estimation to find a reasonable solution to multi-digit addition and subtraction problems. Numbers are less than or equal to 1000. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Estimating With Rational Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students will round fractions and mixed numbers, and then use their rounding skills to estimate sums, differences, products, and quotients.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Nova: Estimating Up, Up and How Far Away?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this cleaver site to estimate how far away a hot air balloon is from you using your thumb and arm length.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Estimating Equations of Lines of Best Fit and Making Predictions

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice estimating the equation of a line of best fit through data points in a scatter plot. Then use the equation to make a prediction. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a...
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Activity
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Comparison Estimator

For Students 3rd - 5th
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...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Estimating and Finding Confidence Intervals

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students estimate statistical measures and find confidence intervals.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ns Estimating Square Roots

For Teachers 8th Standards
This task asks students to estimate the square root of 800 without using a calculator. To do it, they must examine perfect squares that are higher and lower than 800. Aligns with 8.NS.A.
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Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Estimating Ultimate Recovery

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a video lecture and practice exercises, students estimate the ultimate recovery (EUR) of a hydrocarbon prospect.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: An in Class Experiment to Estimate Binomial Probabilities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This hands-on activity is appropriate for a lab or discussion section for an introductory statistics class, with 8 to 40 students. Each student performs a binomial experiment and computes a confidence interval for the true binomial...
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Unit Plan
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Estimate the Mean Using Grouped Results

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Students watch an online tutorial on the concept of estimating the mean. After watching, students test their knowledge by attempting ten practice problems that increase or decrease in difficulty based on their answers.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Estimating Sums and Differences

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to teach third grade students the steps in estimating sums and differences. It also reviews rounding numbers to the nearest ten and hundred.
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Activity
AAA Math

Aaa Math: Estimating a Sum by Rounding

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use rounding to estimate the answer to an addition problem in this online game. As you play the game, running totals of correct and incorrect answers and your score are displayed.
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AAA Math

Aaa Math: Estimating a Sum by Rounding

For Students 3rd - 4th
This site explains how to estimate sums of whole numbers. Gives practice and games to practice this skill.
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Activity
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Estimator Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity allows the student to practice estimating the results of addition multiplication and percentage problems. The activity has 3 levels of challenge.

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