Magnitude & Estimation with Educreations

These 1st grade students at Trevvett are working on understanding magnitude and how to estimate an amount. To practice with this concept, the students looked around the room for a group of something they could photograph. Then they used educreations on the iPad to explain how they determined their estimate for the number of items that they photographed. Here are some great examples!
This student wanted to estimate how many textbooks were on the shelf:

This student knew exactly how she wanted to approach solving this problem, but she really wanted to count all of the items. She created some groups of 10, but then stopped and guessed how many PlayDoh toys she would have altogether. She estimated 80. The actual amount was 103.

This student wanted to estimate how many words were on the word wall: