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What is the area of the following shape?
3 ft
4 ft
10 ft
9 ft
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LESSON 17: ESTIMATING
STANDARD: 7.M.11
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How much time will it take to read a 200page novel, if it
takes 2 minutes and 7 seconds to read page 1?
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What does it mean to estimate?
Is estimating the same as rounding?
NO!
Braining Camp!
But it does involve the rounding of numbers.
EXAMPLE: How can we estimate the sum of 19.96 + 35.24?
Estimation is an approximation of the actual answer.
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Place the values on the number line:
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Which of the decimals round to 0.02?
0.0105 0.0167
If the value is halfway between or further (greater) than halfway, you round up!
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Place the decimals on the number line:
Which of the decimals round to 0.01?
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Round to the highest place value:
17.6 20?
101.34 ?
100
53.973 50?
0.9234 ?
0.9
0.0027 ?
0.003
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Rounding!
Round 123.873279 to... Number
the nearest integer
the highest place value
the nearest tens place
the nearest tenth
the nearest hundredth
the nearest thousandth
the nearest tenthousandth
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Is 55 x 90 a correct estimate for 56.87 x 93.78?
Is there a more accurate estimate?
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What is an appropriate estimate for 543000 x 16880?
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Use rounding to estimate these sums:
25.89 + 12.27 + 9.704
+ + =
1.43 + 2.057 + 5.099
+ + =
0.95 + 3.578 + 6.763
+ + =
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Use rounding to estimate the differences:
86.89 9.532
=
6.894 0.55
=
10.378 3.521 2.4099
=
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Use rounding to estimate the products:
9.56 x 0.345
x =
0.073 x 0.375
x =
0.019 x 0.67 x 0.97
x x =
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Use rounding to choose the most reasonable answer.
0.352 x 27.1 9.5392
95.392 0.95392 953.92
97.04 x 27.25 2,644.34
0.013 x 0.232 0.003016
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Tina frames beautiful paintings and sells them at a good
price. She just finished a painting, 12.35 inches wide and
15.75 inches long. She knows that the framing shop
charges 25 cents per square inch for framing.
Approximately how much money should Tina spend for
framing the painting? Estimate!
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The average yield of soybeans in the US is 2.86 tons/hectare. In
a year, the total harvest of soybeans was 87,856,000 tons.
Estimate the amount of area in the US that cultivates soybeans.
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LEARNING LOG ‐ 7.M.11
Estimate the surface area of the following rectangular prism.
Surface Area = 2 (lw + lh + wh)
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