1. Estimating Operations with Decimals
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2. Warm Up Guess Estimation Based on little or no evidence
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4. Estimating Addition and Subtraction of Decimals
A common way to estimate when adding and subtracting decimals is to round each number.
Example1: Kim bought a shirt for $14.78, a scarf for $9.20 and a belt for $ About how much money did she spend?
$ rounds to $15.00
$ rounds to $9.00
$ rounds to $12.00
Kim spent about $ 36.00

5. Practice Estimate each problem.1)
2) – 2.39
3). Kelly ran 4.35 miles on Monday, 3.67 miles on Tuesday and 3.8 miles on Friday. About how many miles did she run during the week?
4 + 6 =10
7-2=5
= 12 miles

7. This is one possible answer.
This is one possible answer.
This is one possible answer.

8. These are possible answers.
These are possible answers.
= 605
790-3 = 787
34 x 10= 340
No, 5 x 5 =25

9. Closure
Give an example of a time when it would be helpful to estimate.