Headline Story
Place Value, #4
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Introduction
Share the Headline Story with the class. Encourage children to think of creative ways to complete the story. You might promote responses that involve estimation.
Headline Story
Alice, Larry, and Tomika each have a gallon jug full of golf balls. Alice and Larry each count their golf balls. Alice counts 34 and Larry counts 37.
Possible student responses
- Larry has 3 more golf balls than Alice.
- Tomika probably has about the same number of golf balls, because the jugs are all the same size —a gallon.
- They each have about 35 golf balls.
- In a two-gallon jug, about 70 golf balls would fit.
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