Lesson 14: estimating
Lesson 14 Learning Objective:
Estimate and measure lengths to the closest centimeter and to the closest millimeter
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Reflect:
Reflect in your math journal. Draw, create or write to share your thinking. See Lesson 14 guide for more reflection questions, real life anchoring, playful explorations and creative invitations.
How is estimating like listening?
How are your fingers and hands a natural estimating/“ish” measuring tool?
How does estimating help us to be gentle with the world?
Describe a time when a measurement was close enough without needing to be exact
What in life is best measured “ish-ly” rather than precisely? What in life is best measured precisely rather than “ish-ly”?
Math Talk:
Have a conversation about this image. Be curious. Be creative. Can you see in different ways?
Photos and design by LM, illustration from The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood
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