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Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749 –1827) was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. In 1786 Laplace estimated the population of France by using a sample.

ESTIMATION

How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?

Key questions

  1. Can we round to a power of 10?

  2. How do we round to a decimal place?

  3. How do we round to a significant figure?

  4. How can we approximate the answer to a calculation?

  5. What is truncation?

  6. How do we find upper and lower bounds?

  7. What are rounding errors?

4 lessons

Specification detail

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Literacy

  • stories that set a frame or background

  • stories that accompany or intertwine

  • stories that introduce

  • stories that explain

  • stories that ask a question

  • stories that entertain

The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensburger

Counting on Frank by Rod Clement

Laplace

Introduce...

Title - Key questions

calculations - 1, 4

morpion solitaire - 6

estimation starter - 4

estimating sums - 4

estimation starter 2 - 4

calculations decimals - 3, 4

Develop...

Title - Key questions

tress for net zero - 4

number estimation, assumptions and predictions - 3,4

smile ordering and rounding - 1,2,3,4

more accurate - 1,4

fermi estimation - tea in china - 4

checkpoints estimation and rounding - 1,2,4

estimation games - 4

counting trees - 4

estimating calculations - 3,4

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