Estimating Products in Word Problems
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Objective
I can estimate the answer to a word problem by rounding the numbers and then multiplying.
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Warm-up video
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Practice
7 questions
Explain in your own words what it means to estimate a whole number product.
Round 78 × 51 using front-end estimation. Show your work.
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Exit ticket
Quick comprehension check
“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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