September's Estimate Jar

Today, we learned about estimating the number of objects that were in our Estimate Jar. Each student wrote down their estimate on their whiteboard. 

We discussed our rules for counting objects (one item at a time with one to one correspondence). And we have been practicing counting and focusing on our teen numbers (they are tricky) with our number of days we have come to school. 

However, we did find that counting by twos would be faster since we were running out of time in our math class! So we grouped our treats in twos to see about skipping every other number. We got the same number....only faster!

Then for the big moment!! We all took a turn going around the class and sharing our estimate. We compared numbers and how far away our estimate was from the actual total we had of candies. 

We had 4 students that tied as our lucky winners! They all had the closest guess that was only 3 away from the actual number! They were super kind to share the candies with everyone in class today! Then they each got to take home the leftovers! Score!

Students are really excited to see what is going to fill our estimate jar next for October!