Estimation

After the students had collected the Terry Fox donation, they wondered how much money was collected in total.  They thought it wild be important to accurately know the amount so that we could tell:

 - the Terry Fox Foundation

 - the researchers at the the hospital

 - BC Cancer Agency

 - the students and staff at DLG

We decided to estimate how much money was in the jar before we counted it.  Some suggestions from the students for estimating were:

- what you know about money

- look at the bills

- look a close look at the container

Some students noticed that there was a cheque on the jar and wondered how much the cheque was written for.  After deciding that it would be important to know the value of the cheque I showed them the amount.   The students then decided that knowing the amount of the cheque would change their estimates.  We then made a second estimate. 

Here are our estimates: