There are 12 months in one year. If McKenna has been alive for 8
years, what would be a reasonable estimate for the number of months
she has been alive?
Zachary read for 28 minutes a day, 4 days a week. What is the total
number of minutes Zachary read in 5
weeks?
There are 15 boys in fourth grade chorus.
There are twice as many girls as boys in chorus. How many girls are in fourth
grade chorus?
William Street School has 4 parking lots with an average of 32 cars in each lot. What is a
reasonable estimate for the number of cars at William Street School?
A race track is 7 miles long. Daniel drove
around the track 27 times. He used
estimation to find out how far he drove.
First, he multiplied 30 X 7 = 210. What
should he do next to determine the actual distance he drove?
Julie and her family drive to Florida 3 times
each year to go to Disney World. The distance there and
back is 2,390 miles. What is the total
distance that they drive each year on their
trips to Florida?
There are 9 classrooms in the C2 Commons. Each class brought in 39 items for the
food drive. The Kids Helping Kids Club used estimation to figure out how many items
the C2 Commons brought in. First they multiplied 40 X 9 = 360. What should they do next to determine the actual number of items that were
brought in?
Rosie and Joey made Christmas cards. Rosie
made 12 Christmas cards and Joey made 2 times as many cards as Rosie. How many cards
did they make total?
Danny has 5 times as many baseball cards as Ken. Ken has 15 fewer
baseball cards than Andrew. Andrew has
30 baseball cards. How many cards does Danny
have?
Sally has 6 times as many songs on her I-Pod than Katie. Katie
has 8 fewer songs than Sarah. Sarah has 32
songs. How many songs does Sally have?