You thought I was going to talk about a problem that math teachers could use, didn't you? Well, maybe math teachers can use this. (note: when I say "teachers" I really mean "learning facilitators") It ...

Math researchers discovered new evidence about math learning disabilities. Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have discovered that the innate ability to estimate quantities is ...

Quick: How many people did you see on the way home from work the other day? Was it more or less than the day before? Regardless of your answer, it's likely you can't explain what led you to it. Number ...

Preschool children who showed less ability to estimate the number of objects in a group were 2.4 times more likely to have a later mathematical learning disability than other young people, according ...

Making a sensible guess or a rough calculation is known as estimation. An estimate is not an exact calculation. You can use estimation when you do not need to know an exact number or you can use it to ...

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We can use significant figures to get an approximate answer to a problem. We can round off all the numbers in a maths problem to \(1\) significant figure to make 'easier' numbers. It is often possible ...