Mrs. Burns' Class Blog

• We estimated the number of seeds in our class pumpkin. 

• Estimates ranged from 18-300 seeds in our pumpkin.

• We read How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin by Margaret McNamara. 

• We learned so many interesting facts about pumpkins and how to estimate the number of seeds in a pumpkin. We also learned some strategies to count pumpkin seeds efficiently and accurately!

• We made new estimates. Our new range was 200-700 seeds in the pumpkin.

• We cut into the pumpkin, cleaned the seeds, and put our seeds into piles of 10.

 

Good mathematicians always double check...

We circled our groups of 10, just to be sure.

We reported out how many seeds we had on each desk group (we counted by 10's, of course).

• We wrote the numbers down and solved our HUGE number string by adding the 100's, making 100s, adding the 10's, and adding on the 1's.

150+130+170+176=

We ended up with _____ pumpkin seeds!!!