Subject Area: Math Skills
Strategy: Estimation
Appropriate Grade Level: Pre K- 5
Procedures/Steps:
1. Fill a glass or clear plastic jar with a random number of objects. For example
marbles.
2. Have the students guess how many of the objects are in the jar. For example 25
marbles.
3. Have the students write down their estimate on a piece of paper.
4. Once you have everyone’s guess count out the marbles together.
Comments and/or tips:
This activity is good for teaching counting, estimation, and writing numerals.
Source:
Dobbs, J., Doctroff, G.L., & Fisher, P.H. (2003). The “math is everywhere” preschool
mathematics curriculum. Teaching Children Mathematics. 10(1), 20.
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