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.

Rounding in Real Life!

Of all the things you'll learn in math this year, rounding numbers is probably the one you'll use the most in real life! 

Talk with your family about when you use rounding.  Reply to this post with three times we use rounding in real life.  Try not to write the same thing as your classmates.

Find a Number!

Find a three-digit number somewhere in your house.  Then answer all of these questions about it!

1.  Write the number in standard form.

2.  Where did you find it?

3.  How is the number being used?  Is it counting, measuring, or labeling?

4.  Write the number in expanded form.

5.  Write the number in word form.

Monday Blog Challenge

We were SO close to the goal last night!  Let's meet it this time.  16 people need to post a reply. 

Make up an addition problem with 4-digit numbers.  It should be a story problem about something that could happen in real life.  Then, for double credit, answer a problem from a classmate.  Remember your labels!