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Practice Estimating!
Bring math home with this interative estimating worksheet! Scholars make educated guesses about the number of six household items: crayons in a crayon box, keys on a key ring, coins in a piggy bank, trees in the yard, pictures on the...
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Popcorn Math
Everyone loves popcorn! Use this treat to teach math concepts including place value, estimating, graphing, and volume. Eight possible activities are included, and they can be modified to fit all grade levels.
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Estimating and Testing Steps
Students predict how many steps they think it will take them to get from the front of the room to the back. They record predictions on paper and then into database and then actually test by walking foot to foot to their destination...
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Profit From Pumpkins
Third graders cut open a pumpkin. In this math lesson plan, 3rd graders complete the worksheet "From Seed to Pumpkin" and then clean out their pumpkins to see how many seeds are in it.
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Counting Blood Cells
Students observe number sense by participating in an estimation activity. For this blood cells lesson, students identify the importance of blood cells in the human body and discuss how tiny they are. Students utilize paper dots as a...
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Quick Quiz: Estimating and Rounding
In this rounding and estimating instructional activity, 5th graders solve 8 addition, subtraction, and rounding problems. Problems ask students to solve, round, estimate, or write the words in number form after reading the word form.
Fuel the Brain
Cupids Estimation
Learners use candied hearts to estimate how many will fill the heart on the Valentine's Day themed page. They then do a final count after they have finished the estimation activities.
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Problem-Solving Decisions: Estimates or Exact Answers
In this problem solving worksheet, students examine 2 math word problems taking care to decide whether they should estimate answers or find exact answers
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Sunshine Math- 2
In this math applications worksheet, students solve 6 varied problems that include estimation, money, basic operations, pictographs and geometry.
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Can You Guess
Students develop useful strategies for mental calculation when estimating possible addition solutions. They mentally perform calculations involving addition and subtraction. Students state the estimated sum or difference between numbers.
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Making Estimations in Measurement
Learners utilize their knowledge of measurement in making accurate measurements and estimations.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How Many Jelly Beans?
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Inez estimates whether she has enough jelly beans in her large container to decorate all of the cookies in her batch.
Scholastic
Scholastic Teachers: Celebrate the 100th Day of School!
Scholastic has put together 100th day math ideas from several different teachers. Includes "zero, my hero", probability, sorting, measuring, estimating, counting, weighing, money, and other ideas for celebrating the 100th day.