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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An estimate that varies by approximately 20% from the real answer?

The practicing engineer in me would be screaming at the teacher or the idiot who made the curriculum. [/quote]

As the unit continues, they will estimate using larger numbers.  It will be more useful then. [/quote]

Not necessarily if they were blindly taught that they're always supposed to round to the hundreds place, LOL. E.g, if they're trying to estimate the difference or sum of two 8 digit numbers, rounding to only hundreds place might defeat the purpose of estimating.[/quote]

Even worse, they would have learned not to trust their intuition, even if their intuition wasn't the problem in the first place.[/quote]

Exactly, that's my main priority to make sure his intuition is not undermined. This is probably one of the saddest things I see with many many kids coming out of middle school where you ask them any kind of question (even something pretty simple) and they are grasping for some algorithm from memory then they draw a blank and are done. They stop thinking altogether. I know it's not natural as I've seen many elementary aged kids run circles around these older kids. I've concluded that this is a learned habit coming from school, especially from math class.[/quote]

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