Whole Number Estimation
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Objective
I can estimate solutions to single-step and multistep word problems using addition and subtraction with whole numbers.
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Warm-up video
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Practice
7 questions
Estimate the sum of 3,256 and 1,879 using front-end estimation.
Estimate the difference between 8,765 and 4,321 by rounding each number to the nearest thousand.
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Exit ticket
Quick comprehension check
“A bookstore sold 2,345 books in one week and 1,876 books the following week. Estimate the total number of books sold during those two weeks. A farmer harvested 4,789 apples from one orchard and 2,134 apples from another. Estimate how many more apples were harvested from the first orchard. ”
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