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Mathematics IV
I.

Estimate the quotient of 4- to 5-digit dividends by 2-digit numbers

II. 1. Estimating the quotients of 4- to 5-digit dividends by 2-digit numbers

2. Giving the rounded numbers to the nearest 10,100 and 1 000
Reference: BEC-PELC I.E.2
textbook in Math 4

III.

Materials:

flash cards, charts, drill boards

Value:

Helpfulness and cooperation

1. Drill
Mental Computation . Give the quotient as fast as you can.
a. 3 000 30 =

b.6 000 20 =

c.24 000 80 =

d.81 000 90 =

e. 14 000 70 =

2. Review
(Stress the value of cooperation.)

Students will be grouped in dyads, player A and B. Each player takes turn in answering the
questions. The group who finishes first wins the contest.
Round off the following numbers to the nearest highest place value.
a. 1 879

b. 31 187

c. 2 638

d. 45 616

g. 8 649

h. 72 634

i. 9 338

j. 85 111

e. 3 448

f. 44 594

3. Motivation
What do we usually do before entering a movie house? If you dont pay for the tickets, do
you think you can watch the movie?
We are going to read a problem regarding pupils who work for a cause.
A group of students collected
Each ticket costs

1,290.00 from the tickets sold for their stage play.

15.00. How many tickets were sold?

B. 1. Presentation
Group the pupils into 4. Emphasize that their answers must be estimates.
If you are a member of that group, how are you going to answer the problem?
We are going to group together and find out some ways to answer the problem.
Activity Exercises Discovery Approach
Group 1: Guess and check strategy
(Answers of pupils must be an educated guess.)

a. What is the answer? Write it down.

b. Solve and find if your answer is correct. Write your solution.
c. Check if the answer makes sense.
Group 2: Simplifying problem approach
Pupils will follow the 4 steps in problem solving.

a. Understand/think
b. Plan for the operation, mathematical sentence, equation
c. Solve
d. Looking back Check your answers by multiplying the quotient and divisor
2. Analysis/Abstraction
(The teacher should use data from the pupils for the analysis and discussion of the problems.)
a. Who collected the amount of money from the tickets sold?
b. How much money have they collected?
c. How much is the cost of ticket?
d. About how many tickets were sold?
20.00

15.00

1,290.00

1,000.00

20 1 000
Follow-up Questions:

1. What happened to the

1,290.00? _____

2. How about
15.00? _____
Did it change?
3. What did you do to the given numbers?
Did you round the given numbers?
4. How did you divide the given numbers?
5. What did you do to the numbers before dividing it?
Important reminder: Rounding off numbers is needed in estimating the quotient.

4. Practice Exercises
Estimate the quotient.
a. 5 136 21 = b.1 501 69 =

c. 8 445 92 = d. 62 926 47 =

e.

34 108 82 =

5. Generalization
In estimating quotients, first round off the dividend and the divisor to the highest place
value then divide.

C. Application
Estimate the answers to following:
1) How many 23s are there in 4 323?
2) How many 52s are there in 1 322?
3) How many dozens are there in 105 pieces?
4) How many minutes are there in 3 578 seconds?
5) 58 389 26 =

IV. Evaluation
A. Write a reasonable estimate for each problem.
1)

98.00 48 = _____

4) 19 457 23 = _____ 5)

2)

41 872 19 = _____ 3)

69 673 68 = _____

V. Assignment
Round both numbers then estimate the quotient.

17 399 34 = _____

1)

62.00 56 =

4) 27 431 34 =5)

2)

43 209 18 =

9 536 16 =

3)

44 867 93 =