Estimating Jar
This activity provides a fun, non-threatening way to help students develop important estimation and mathematical reasoning skills.
Standards
Idea Sheets are cross-referenced to subjects listed in the Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, and California Content Standards.
Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Kindergarten||Mathematical Practices|||K.CC.1. Count to 100 by ones and by tens.||Common Core Mathematics||Kindergarten||Counting And Cardinality||Know Number Names And The Count Sequence|||K.CC.5. Count to answer “”how many?”” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1?20, count out that many objects.||Common Core Mathematics||Kindergarten||Counting And Cardinality||Count To Tell The Number Of Objects|||K.CC.6. Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.1||Common Core Mathematics||Kindergarten||Counting And Cardinality||Compare Numbers|||K.OA.1. Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings2, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.||Common Core Mathematics||Kindergarten||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Understand Addition As Putting Together And Adding To, And Under- Stand Subtraction As Taking Apart And Taking From|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Mathematical Practices|||1.OA.1. Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.2||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Represent And Solve Problems Involving Addition And Subtraction|||1.OA.5. Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 1||Operations And Algebraic Thinking||Add And Subtract Within 20|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 2||Mathematical Practices|||Mathematical Practices: 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. ||Common Core Mathematics||Grade 3||Mathematical Practices
1.2 Count, recognize, represent, name and order a numbers of objects (up to 30).||CA Mathematics||Grade Kindergarten||01. Number Sense||1.0 Students understand the relationship between numbers and quantities (i.e., that a set of objects has the same number of objects in different situations, regardless of its position or arrangement).|||2.0 Students solve problems in reasonable ways and justify their reasoning.||CA Mathematics||Grade Kindergarten||05. Mathematical Reasoning|||3.0 Students use estimation strategies in computation and problem solving that involve numbers that use the ones and tens places.||CA Mathematics||Grade Kindergarten||01. Number Sense|||2.0 Students solve problems and justify their reasoning.||CA Mathematics||Grade 1||05. Mathematical Reasoning|||3.0 Students use estimation strategies in computation and problem solving that involve numbers that use the ones, tens, and hundreds places.||CA Mathematics||Grade 1||01. Number Sense|||6.0 Students use estimation strategies in computation and problem solving that involve numbers that use the ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands places.||CA Mathematics||Grade 2||01. Number Sense
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