Help students learn estimating skills and assess the reasonableness of answers to real life problems. Use this Powerpoint lesson introduction and the attractive card activities. Then develop further estimation skills by including number properties and using the further levels of cards.
The problems use addition and subtraction of whole numbers and decimals.
There are five activities at three graduated levels. There are 6 problems in each set.
- Estimation
- Set A with A1 answer cards
- Set B with B1 answer cards
- Estimation and number property skills
- Set A with A2 answer cards
- Set B with B2 answer cards
- Harder problems using both estimation and number property skills
- Set C with C answer cards
Files for three versions are included.
International version has $ and metric units.
UK version has £ and metric units.
US version has $ and US units.
Suited to ages 11 to 99.
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Thanks, as a cover teacher I am always looking for useful resources, this is fab
A good idea to get students talking about estimation. They've clearly taken a long time to make. Thanks for sharing.
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