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- Estimate the sheets of paper Hannah's school uses in a year.
- Find the high guess when the middle of a range on the power-of-ten scale is given.
- Decide how closely Hannah must guess each factor to keep a product within a set error.
- Compare two meanings of order of magnitude using the power-of-ten scale.
- Find the middle of a range of text messages, then estimate for a school of 1200 students.
- Pool and hose problem: find the fewest and most minutes needed to fill the pool.
- Kevin estimates how many pet dogs live in a city from low and high assumptions.
- Estimate how many pizzas Hannah's town orders in one week.
- Estimate how many sheets of printer paper stacked flat would reach the Moon.
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- 1.1Elements and membership
- 1.2Writing sets: roster, rule and the empty set
- 1.3Commutative, associative and distributive properties
- 1.4Identity and inverse elements
- 1.5Closure
- 1.6Interpreting the parts of an expression
- 1.7Units, quantities and a sensible level of accuracy
- 1.8Estimating a huge quantity from small facts