Operations
Rounding
Estimate sums and Differences
Estimate Products and Quotients
Estimation in Word Problems
100

Name the operation you need to use:

Jess had 42 books in her Library she receives 36 more for her birthday. How many books does she have in her library now 

adding (+)

100

Round 147 to the nearest 10

150

100

estimate: 315 - 125 = 


300-130 = 170

320 - 130 = 190

100

Estimate 28x5

30x5=150

100

Jen has 3578 books Jessica has 4314 book ABOUT how many books do they have altogether?

4000+4000 = 8,000

or

3600+4300 = 7,900

200

State the operation needed

There are 25 calories in a chocolate bar, how many calories are in 10 chocolate bars

Multiply (X)

200

round 1368 to the nearest 100

1400

200

Estimate: 6,537+5,367=

6,500+5,400 = 11,900

200

Estimate:554/60

600/60= 10

200

Jen is in ticket sales, there are 22 play.  she hopes to sell about 40,000 tickets. About how many tickets does she need to sell to each play?

40,000/20 = 2000

2,000 tickets to each play

300

State the operation needed

A school has 30 classrooms and 500 students, how many students are in each class room?

Division (/)

300

round 2194 to the nearest 1000

2000

300

Estimate: 2,374+25,725=

2,000+26,000= 28,000

300

Estimate 15,600/36=

15,000/30 = 500

300

There are 453 students in a school. About how many students in total of 10 schools of similar size

450x10= 4,500

400

There are 24 soccer games in the season, the season lasts 2 months, how many games are in each month?

division (/)

400

Round 524,674 to the nearest 1000

525,000

400

Estimate: 125-58

120-50=70

400

estimate 760x36 =

800x40 = 32,000

400

Larry went to the hardware store to buy 500 nails.  There are 100 nails in each pack.  Each pack sells for 5.78. About how much does he send on nails?

5x6= $35.00

500

Sally has 166 golf balls, Jen has 452 golf balls. how many more golf balls does Jen have than sally?

subtraction (-)

500

Round 26,494 to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000

26,490

26,500

26,000

500

Estimate: 9,874-2,987=

10,000-3000= 7,000

500

Estimate: 45,600/50

50,000/50 = 1,000

500

a school has 438 students estimate the total for 3 schools about the same size

440x3=1320

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