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Melissa Behrendt 4th grade at Erickson Elementary Estimating Products January 17th at 1:30pm 30 minutes

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Overview In this lesson, students will use rounding to estimate products. Students will work through word problems which have real life applications and use estimation strategies to find approximate products. Students have been working on 2x1 multiplication for the past week. Soon, the students will work with 3x1 multiplication. They have not faced any problems, which ask them to estimate the product, and instead they have been finding the exact answer. Envision Math curriculum Attending to the Learners I am expecting students to be familiar with how to round numbers up or down. I am expecting that students are also familiar with how to multiply by tens (for example, 2x60 and 4x20). First, I plan to lead a rich introduction to estimation of products by bringing back concepts previously learned. I will make sure I give purpose to this lesson by showing a real-life connection. Finally, I will make sure I am writing important ideas down on the board so students will be able to see and hear the important parts of the lesson. Learning Goals 1) Students will be to guess the answer to a multiplication problem by using rounding/estimation strategies. N.FL.04.34 Estimate the answers to calculations involving addition, subtraction, or multiplication. N.FL.04.10 Multiply fluently any whole number by a one-digit number and a three-digit number by a two-digit number; for a two-digit by one-digit multiplication use distributive property to develop meaning for the algorithm. First, students will explain how to round two to three digit numbers to the tens place. Next, students will go through how to multiply numbers using basic facts and adding zeros to the end. Next, students will use both of these strategies to estimate the product of a 2x1 and 3x1 multiplication problem. Finally, students will use all of these skills to solve a real-life word problem.

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1) Have students take out their math notebooks and tell students they need to write down the problems that will be written on the board. 2) Write estimating products on the white board. Ask students to tell you what estimating means and what product means. Explain that an estimate is a guess and a product is the answer to a multiplication problem. 3) Write down the problem 48x4. Have students solve this problem in their notebooks. Call on students to complete this problem. What did you do first? Next, what do you do? Does anyone disagree with this answer? 4) After the answer is found, ask: What is one way you could have guessed the answer to this problem? What does it mean to round a number? How might we round the numbers in our original problem to make it easier to solve? Lets try to make the original problem into one where we can solve one basic multiplication fact and attach the zeros. Round the original problem to 50x4 and solve with the students. 5) Ask students how the problem would change if it was 43x4. Show that it would turn into 40x4=160 1) Pass out the worksheet/assessment page attached. Have students solve the following three problems using estimation and the actual algorithm. Have students compare their answers if finished early. 31x8 24x5 98x2 2) Choose three students to come to the board and share their estimate. 3) Choose three more students to come to the board and share the actual answer they received. Compare these. 1) Tell students that today they learned how to guess the answer to multiplication problems. Explain that this is often useful to check our answers and see if they make sense. 2) Tell students to flip their worksheet over and solve the three assessment problems on the back. Tell students to work independently.

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