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Using Estimation: Knowing What’s Too Big and Too Small

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Using Estimation: Knowing What’s Too Big and Too Small

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by Caitlin Hardeman

Adding and subtracting large numbers can sometimes be difficult. Estimating is an easy way to figure out if your answer is close, or if you need to try again. With this worksheet, your students will use estimation to determine the answer to addition and subtraction problems.

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Guided Lesson: Number Sense 3

Guided Lessons are a sequence of interactive digital games, worksheets, and other activities that guide learners through different concepts and skills. They keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.
Guided Lessons are digital games and exercises that keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.
Understanding how our ten number system works enables students to see interesting and useful patterns and relationships in these math activities. These patterns allow students to develop more efficient mental math strategies when multiplying by multiples of 10 or 100. Students will also review rounding and apply this skill to larger numbers - up to 100,000’s place.
Understanding how our ten number system works enables students to see interesting and useful patterns and relationships in these math activities.
This lesson includes printable activities:
Exercise: Find the Factors of Prime and Composite Numbers
Exercise: Place Value and the Thousands Place
Game: Floyd Danger: Comparing Multi-Digit Numbers Game
Exercise: Comparing Multi-Digit Numbers
Exercise: Place Value and Multiplicative Comparisons
Exercise: Multiply by Multiples of Ten
Exercise: Place Value Up to Hundred Thousands Place
Exercise: Place Value Up to Ten Thousands Place
Game: Multiplying by 100s: Moving Truck Multiplication
Exercise: Place Value and Numbers in Expanded Form
Exercise: Rounding Multi-Digit Numbers to the Nearest 1,000
Exercise: Rounding Multi-Digit Numbers to the Nearest 10000
Exercise: Rounding Multi-Digit Numbers to the Nearest 100,000
Exercise: Comparing Decimal Numbers
Exercise: Ordering Decimal Numbers

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