Real life lessons

Always trying to put the real world in perspective to our kids . In this lesson students were given 1 million dollars to buy homes. They had to use rounding and estimating to find their totals. This activity involved rounding , estimating adding and subtraction. Man the kids loved it. We did it a second time  with 300,000 to buy cars.

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