Estimate or Exact?

After you finish your worksheet, reply to this post.

1. Write three of your own estimate/exact problems like the ones on the worksheet.  Try to use true facts about yourself or your friends in the examples.

2. Look at the problems the classmate before you wrote.  Tell whether each number is an estimate or exact.  If it's an estimate, tell what the key word is.

25 thoughts on “Estimate or Exact?

  1. 1. We eat dinner ever night at 5:00.
    2. My soccer games are about 1 hour.
    3. My dog weighs about 11 pounds

  2. 1. I’ve taken about 10 piano lessons so far.
    2. I have 22 things on my writer’s notebook.
    3. There are 5 bananas on a bunch.

  3. 1. I go to gymnastics every wensday at 5:00.
    2. I have a soccer on sunday at 12:00
    3. I have 6 fish

  4. 1. I own about 12 race cars.
    2. My bus takes about 10 minutes to get to school.
    3. In my Lego box I have 500 pieces.

    Ava’s
    1. estimate because of about
    2. exact
    3. exact

  5. 1. I get home from school at about 3:50pm.
    2. It takes about 1 hour to get to my grandma’s house.
    3. We go to be bed at 8:30pm on school nights.

    Austin
    1. estimate – about
    2. estimate – about
    3. exact

  6. 1. I have three basketball hoops.
    2. My dad has about six pairs of dress shoes.
    3. My brother has been away at college for approximately one month.

    Austin’s
    1.Estimate key word: about.
    2. Estimate key word: about.
    3. Exact.

  7. 1- I have about 5 pencils in my pencil case.
    2- There are 3 people in my family.
    3- There are about 13 trees in our backyard.

    Here are the answers to Austin’s blog!
    1- estimate (About)
    2- estmate(About)
    3- exact

  8. I eat dinner around 6:00pm.
    I get on the bus at 8:35.
    I eat sushi every Tuesday.
    jack
    1. exact
    2. exact
    3. exact

  9. My sister is about 3 years old
    My bus comes at approximately 8:45 AM.
    I have 2 dogs and 2 cats.
    1. Estimate
    2. Estimate
    3. Exact

  10. 1. In 2 days I will go to the Italian Feast.
    2. My Nonna and Nonno have 12 grandchildren.
    3. I have about 200 Pokemon cards.

    1. estimate (about)
    2. estimate (approximately)
    3. exact

  11. My pool is about 9 feet deep. estimate
    My dog is 91 pounds. exact
    I have over 14 board games. estimate

  12. I weigh about 52 pounds.
    I eat about 12 oatmeal cookies in the week.
    There are 4 people in my family.

    The answers to Austine’s problems are:
    1.estimate
    2. estimate
    3. exact

  13. 1. There is about 507 people in the school.
    2. We rode our bikes 10 times on vacation.
    3. There was approximately 6 people at my birthday party.

  14. 1. In about 2 minutes dinner will be ready
    2. I have had 1 soccer game
    3. It is 6:48 on the clock on the oven

    answers to Carly
    1.about
    2.approximately

  15. At a race there was about 1000 racers.
    There was 10 people on my sotf ball team.
    There are at least 8 third grade classes.
    Carly
    Estimate About
    Exact
    Estimate At least

  16. I hit post before I was finished with my answers on Carly’s. please don’t look at those -use these.
    Carly’s
    1.estimate,about
    2.exact
    3.estimate,approximately

  17. 1. There are about 12 children in my dance class>
    2. My little brother weighs 30 lbs.
    3. I have over 30 chapter books.

    answers to Claire’s post:
    estimate- in about
    exact
    exact

  18. 1. wheigh 60 pounds
    2. there was about 25 dounuts givin for Austin`s 8th birthday to our class.
    3. my arm is almost 2 inches.

  19. It is about a 2.5 hour drive to Rhode Island.
    My dog Sacsha weighs about 70 pounds.
    I love tacos !
    Devin responding to Ariana.
    estimate
    estimate
    fact

  20. 1. I’ve been playing soccer for 3 years.
    2. My sister is almost 15.
    3. I have 4 beyblades.

    Austin”s
    1. estimate because of about
    2. estimate because of about
    3. exact

  21. I am responding to Ava’s questions since there was no one posted before me.

    1. estimate key word is about
    2. exact
    3. exact

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