Estimate Products

Examples, solutions, videos, worksheets, stories, and songs to help Grade 6 students learn how to estimate products by clustering and rounding.

How to estimate products using rounding?

1. Round to the greatest place value digit.
2. Multiply the non-zero digits.
3. Write the number of zeroes in the rounded numbers on the end of the answer.

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Round - then estimate the product
Learn to estimate greater products using rounding.
Example:
Round, then estimate the Product:
868 × 13
732 × 17
9,999 &times 777

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Estimating Products
Find an approximate value to the exact answer.

1. 62 × 8
2. 29 × 13
3. 59 × 46
4. 354 × 19

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Estimating using Clustering
Front-End Estimation, Clustering, and using Compatible Numbers

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