About how many do you see?

How do you know?

What do you notice that can help you estimate?

What makes estimating hard?

Note: About how many can refer to the rows of particular colors of tulips, or total tulips in a given section.

3, 4, 5, 6+

Seeing mathematics in the world

Attending to and using structure

Decomposing and using benchmarks to estimate

Thinking in equal groups

Connecting area and multiplicative thinking

After the class has discussed the questions above, you can extend this activity by posing the following questions:

What do you wonder now?