Monday, January 16, 2012

Pg 18, Practice 5 - estimation (multiplication and division)

Sadly, there are only 4 pupils who aced today's work.

The main problem lies in not making a good estimation when dividing. To give a good estimation, we need to have our times table at our fingertips. Rounding off to the nearest thousand before dividing may not give us a nice number.

Compare two of your friends' work below. Do you see what I mean?

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