Estimate the Quotient

Use friendly numbers to predict the answer.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 26

An estimate tells you the size of the answer before you start. Take 3,276 divided by 12. Find friendly numbers near them.
12 is near 10, and 3,276 is near 3,000. That's 300.
So the quotient should be in the hundreds. Our answer, 273, fits. An answer of 27 or 2,730 wouldn't.
Multiplying checks a guess too. Is 1,000 groups of 12 too many? Yes, that's 12,000, far past 3,276.

Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards:

5.NR.2.2 — Fluently divide multi-digit whole numbers (up to 4-digit dividends and 2-digit divisors no greater than 25) to solve practical problems.