ARE
WE THERE YET?
We
don’t have to travel far to stumble into a math scenario
To
Solve the Scenario and answer the question:
Use
Front End Addition!
We recently traversed highway roads from Western North Dakota to Central Minnesota. The beautiful, but placid terrain is soothing and was becoming sleep inducing. We started looking forward to the road signs indicating our miles traveled vs. the miles we still needed to go. The distance from town to town started to become a guessing game that kept us sharp. When we left Bismarck it was 96 miles to Jamestown. There were a few smaller towns in between. So each time we approached a road sign we tried to guess how much closer I was. The sign might read 86 miles, so naturally we rounded it up to 90, it was when the second digit was under five that we delighted in rounding down.
Front end addition proved to be useful and a fun tool for
“guesstimating” our distances. Front end
addition is also a great way to engage kids with a little mental math. The guessing game of “how far?” and the sometimes nagging question “Are we
there yet?” instilled some friendly competition within the confines of our
metal lounge area; the car.
Use Front End Addition to calculate miles traveled vs. miles to go!
96+78+46+33
90+70+40+30
Front end addition brings about a quicker answer, and the road is
more fun along the way.
