Our New Fish Tank: Learning to Estimate to the Nearest Ones, Tens, and Hundreds Places

Math for the Real World: Early Fluency

by Kathleen Collins

Collins, Kathleen

Genres: Mathematics

16 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

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Kathleen Collins was a pioneer African American playwright, filmmaker, civil rights activist, film editor, and educator. Her film Losing Ground is one of the first features made by a black woman in America, and is an extremely rare narrative portrayal of a black female intellectual. Collins died in 1988 at the age of forty-six.

Reviews

[Jasmine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used this book in a third grade class to discuss rounding and estimation. The book is well written and gives one problem but many estimation examples.

[Janelle Zingaro]

Great for teaching estimation