Estimating the Answers to Calculations

Become a Member Description By the end of this unit, students will be able to:use approximation through rounding to estimate answers and calculate possible resulting…
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Estimating the Answers to Calculations

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By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. use approximation through rounding to estimate answers and calculate possible resulting errors expressed using inequality notation a<x≤b

Key Stage 3: Number

  • use approximation through rounding to estimate answers and calculate possible resulting errors expressed using inequality notation a<x≤b

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