About how many do you see?

How do you know?

What do you notice that can help you estimate?

What makes estimating hard?

Seeing mathematics in the world

Attending to and using structure

Composing and decomposing number

Decomposing and using benchmarks to estimate

Thinking in equal groups

Sorting, organizing, and using attributes

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

Which fruits are there the most of? The least? What do you have to pay attention to when figuring this out? Why?