Estimating Products in Word Problems

Grade 445 min

aligned to 5.ce.1 The Student Will Estimate, Represent, Solve, And Justify Solutions To Single-step And Multistep Contextual Problems Using Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, And Division With Whole Numbers.

Learning Objective

I can estimate the answer to a word problem by rounding the numbers and then multiplying.

Lesson Flow

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5 min

Estimating Whole Number Products | Multiplication Estimation | Math with Mr. J

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Practice

14 min

7 questions • Short answer

Exit Ticket

5 min

A bakery sells 324 cookies each day. About how many cookies do they sell in 7 days? Round to the nearest hundred to estimate. A school has 53 classrooms, and each classroom has 28 students. Estimate the total number of students in the school by rounding each number to the nearest ten.

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