Volume 1, Issue 2 – Estimation by Comparison

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly.  Today we’ll be discussing the concept of Estimation by Comparison.

Estimation is a key math skill but one that can be very difficult for students to master. A group of researchers report in Teaching Children Mathematics about an effective new method for teaching estimation through the use of side-by-side comparison of different estimation strategies.

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