8th Grade

Worksheet Description

This worksheet is designed for eighth-grade students and includes a variety of word problems that require skills in rounding and estimating in different contexts. Students are presented with scenarios such as estimating the total bill for grocery shopping, calculating the number of people a stadium can hold, determining fuel needs based on gas mileage, and converting distances from kilometers to miles. Other tasks involve adjusting recipe quantities, estimating the length of a movie, projecting population growth, measuring the length of a table, organizing bookshelves, and calculating the distance run around an athletic track.

The objective of the worksheet is to reinforce students’ skills in rounding numbers to the nearest whole number, ten, hundred, or thousand, and making estimations for practical applications. It teaches them to apply these skills to everyday situations, enhancing their problem-solving abilities and their understanding of how to use mathematics in real life. The problems are crafted to challenge students to think critically about how to approach numerical information, make reasonable estimations, and simplify calculations, which are essential skills for academic success and everyday decision-making. The variety of contexts also helps to keep students engaged and to demonstrate the broad relevance of mathematics.