Strategies for Teaching Students to Estimate

By
 
Thomas Courtney 
edutopia.org
4 min



When students practice rounding numbers and estimating answers to problems, these ideas can guide them to get more precise over time.


The power of estimation in mathematics is well documented. Estimation gives students the outer limits, or the inner limits, in order to frame unfamiliar quantities. Publishers of math curricula know this and will almost always begin a topic of instruction (such as adding fractions or dividing whole numbers) with estimation.

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