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EngageNY

Estimating Probabilities by Collecting Data

For Teachers 7th Standards
Take a spin to determine experimental probability. Small groups spin a spinner and keep track of the sums of the spins and calculate the resulting probabilities. Pupils use simulated frequencies to practice finding other probabilities to...
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EngageNY

Distributions—Center, Shape, and Spread

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Data starts to tell a story when it takes shape. Learners describe skewed and symmetric data. They then use the graphs to estimate mean and standard deviation. 
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California Education Partners

John's Trip Disneyland

For Students 5th Standards
It all adds up to one. Pupils solve several items that involve finding sums of fractions in relationship to a whole. The assessment task uses fractions with unlike denominators to determine the amount of a tank of gas and the amount of...
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Curated OER

Double Your Money

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
What a creative way to delve into adding large numbers! After listening to a story called The King's Chessboard, learners estimate how much money they would have each day following instructions based on doubling and exponentially...
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Curated OER

Number Sense

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice rounding 4 digit numbers using place value concepts. In this estimating sums and differences lesson, 1st graders explore clustering, rounding, and front end estimation as methods for rounding decimals.
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Curated OER

Worksheet 8

For Students 6th - 8th
In this math activity, students consider the harmonic series. They assume that the sums move towards infinity and that they are divergent.
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Curated OER

Estimating and Counting Money

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners explore the concepts of estimating and rounding. In this estimating and rounding lesson, students play a game of tic-tac-toe. Learners pick items and must estimate their cost by rounding. Students estimate the costs of pretend...
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Curated OER

Multiplying by Two-Digit Numbers

For Teachers 6th
In this mathematics worksheet, 6th graders find the product of a given equation. Then they use an array and find the sum of the partial products. Students also use zeros as place holders when necessary.
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Curated OER

Decimals test

For Students 7th - 10th
In this decimals activity, students complete a test asking them questions on rounding, sums, and metric units involving decimals. Students complete 20 problems.
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Curated OER

Skip it to multiply it

For Teachers 1st
First graders make sensible estimates and check the reasonableness of answers. They make up, tell and record number stories up to 9 about given objects. They skip count in twos, threes and fives.
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Curated OER

Fraction Review

For Students 5th - 10th
For this fractions worksheet, learners put fractions into their simplest form, write as improper fractions, add and subtract, estimate amounts, and more. They complete 31 problems.
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Curated OER

Rounding

For Teachers 1st
First graders round to estimate greater sums. After a lecture/demo, 1st graders complete a web instructional activity on estimation. They practice rounding to the nearest hundred using a restaurant take-out menu.
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Curated OER

How Close Is Our Estimate?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders estimate perimeter, area, and volume. They measure perimeter and area using nonstandard units of measurement. Students add and subtract non-standard units of measurement. They add mixed numbers and simplify the sum.
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Curated OER

Addition - What Are the Missing Numbers?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this addition worksheet, students determine what the missing numbers are in 8 two digit addition problems; either finding the sum or an addend. They estimate and calculate each answer in 4 three and four digit addition problems.
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Curated OER

Estimate the Difference

For Students 4th - 6th
In this estimation worksheet, students complete ten estimation problems by rounding each number to the nearest ten. These are all two-digit subtraction problems.
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Curated OER

Estimating with Decimals

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this decimal worksheet, students estimate sums, differences, products or quotients in a set of 35 decimal problems. Text pages are given, but text name is not included.
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Curated OER

Estimation 4: Sum and Difference

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this estimation worksheet, students read story problems, determine the correct operation, and mentally evaluate the problem by using compatible numbers or through the process of rounding. Students complete three multiple choice problems.
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Curated OER

Add and Subtract

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Like the cubs in A Fair Bear to Share, your 2nd grade class will practice adding and subtracting double-digit numbers by grouping, regrouping, and sorting a collection of objects. This requires many resources, but it is well worth the...
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Curated OER

Least Squares

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this least squares activity, students solve 6 different problems that include the least squares of numbers. First, they plot 3 points on the axes shown and draw in their best approximating line. Then, students estimate the slope and...
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Curated OER

Operations with Fractions and Decimals

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Complete a lesson plan that introduces and explores operations with fractions and decimals. Pupils estimate the reasonableness of a decimal computation. Then discuss what operation is needed to find an answer. Handouts, web sources, and...
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Curated OER

Representing Numbers Using Scientific Notation

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Learners explore the concept of scientific notation. In this scientific notation lesson, mathematicians discuss how multiplying by a power of 10 affects the decimal. They play Powers of 10 Yahtzee. Students roll a die five times and each...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Bear Factory Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
By examining a set of dice roll data, statisticians determine the probability of different sums occurring. They visit an interactive website and determine how many different vacation outfits Bobbie Bear will have based on the colored...
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Curated OER

Triangle Inequality Theorems Investigation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students estimate and measure triangles. In this geometry lesson, students identify the relationship between three sides and a triangle. They use the inequality theorem to decide if a triangle will be formed or not.
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Curated OER

Let's Go Shopping: Estimation At The Mall

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students estimate the total cost of a shopping trip. In this estimation lesson, students use three different techniques to estimate how much a shopping trip will cost.

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