Friday, September 20, 2013

September 19, 2013

Today we will be estimating decimal sums, differences, products and quotients using three new methods:  Clustering, Compatible Numbers & Front-end estimation.

Clustering - means rounding the numbers to the same value.

Compatible Numbers - these are numbers that are close to the numbers that are in the problem and are helpful when you are solving the problem mentally.

Front-end estimation - used when searching for the range for the sum

Assignment

Pages 106 & 107

  • Problems  1 - 35  odd  & 36 - 43 all

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