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Let Your Fingers Do the Estimating Lesson PlanLet Your Fingers Do the Estimating Lesson Plan
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3rd - 12th
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Math
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Year
2002
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Let Your Fingers Do the Estimating

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Investigate estimation with the White Pages. Youngsters use the phonebook to estimate the average number of phone listings that can be found there. They write a paragraph explaining the processes they used in this challenge.

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Concepts

the alphabet, average, central tendency, estimation, mean

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alphabet, average, estimate, estimation, mean, telephone, math

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