Estimation can be a difficult concept for young kids to understand. Most of them seemed to care only about getting “the right answer.” For one of our Valentine’s Day activities, students had to guess how many fruit snacks are in this jar! We discussed how estimation can be a valuable skill to have in real life and guessing numbers that are close to the actual amount means it is a “good guess”. After looking at the size of one fruit snack and comparing this to other items we have estimated, all students agreed that it could not be 1000… or 100. They also agreed that it could not be 0, 1 or 5, or even 10.
Here are our guesses:
After counting them, we found out there were 22 fruit snack packs in the jar! Nice work, everyone!