Approximation & Estimation
No measurement is ever exact. Learning to say how wrong a number might be is a more useful skill than getting more decimal places.
What this lesson covers
Approximation & Estimation is a 9-part Class 7 Mathematics lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.
How it begins
A calculator will happily tell you that 11 ÷ 3 = 3.666666667. A shopkeeper will not weigh your flour to nine decimal places. Rounding is not laziness. It is honesty about how precisely you actually know something. Three words that get used loosely and mean different things: Rounding, replacing a number with a nearby simpler one, following a rule.
The 9 parts
- Why approximate at all
- Rounding is a "which is nearer" question
- Significant figures
- Estimating by eye
- Limits of accuracy
- Bounds in a calculation
- Where marks get lost
- What to remember
- Watch one worked through
Practise Approximation & Estimation
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🧠 5 quizzes on Approximation & Estimation (2 easy, 2 medium, 1 hard)
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