This task is about estimating with multiplication.
Do NOT use a calculator for these tasks.
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Each of these 5 pots has 387 gold coins in it.
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In the box below show how you would ESTIMATE (using simple sums and without using a calculator) the number of gold coins in the 5 pots.
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My estimate of the number of coins in the 5 pots is ___________. |
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A telephone book has 502 pages of numbers. Each page has 4 columns and each column has an average of 73 telephone numbers.
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In the box below, show how you would ESTIMATE (using simple sums and without using a calculator) the total number of phone numbers in the telephone book.
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My estimate of the total number of telephone numbers is ___________. |