Estimating What Fraction of a Total Worksheet Download
Free 6th Grade math worksheets on Estimating What Fraction of a Total. Each worksheet has 6 problems with an answer key and are ideal for teachers and homeschooling. You can download the PDF, create a set of flash cards or set it up for online learning.
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About this worksheet
Each worksheet has 6 problems choosing the benchmark fraction closest to a part of a total.
Every estimation worksheet on this site estimates a sum, a product or a quotient. This one estimates a FRACTION - a part measured against a whole and rounded to the nearest hundredth - which is what the released test items ask. Every problem carries the distractor the item is built to catch: the part written over a hundred, as though the total were a hundred. The total is always comfortably over 100 so that distractor is genuinely wrong rather than nearly right. Sheets can be customized, turned into flash cards, or assigned for online learning.
Student objectives
- Compare a part against a whole.
- Choose the hundredth the fraction is nearest.
- Reject writing the part over one hundred.
Everyday practice
- Say roughly what fraction of a bill a discount is.
- Estimate a part of a total as a fraction.
- Explain why 14 off 138 is not 14 hundredths.