Estimation

I'm baaaa-aack!

I'd estimate it's been almost 3 weeks since my last post! (Fine, you caught me. It wasn't real estimating. I went back and checked, realized it'd been 19 days, and decided to round it to 3 weeks to make it look like an estimation. You're right. I am very ashamed.)

Anyways, a very important subject- or at least a subject I'd estimate is important (that was a good one, eh? Eh??)- brought me home:

ESTIMATION!!!

Now, I personally have very strong feelings toward estimation. I hate it. I just find it easier to find the real number and have no doubt rather than estimating something that we will never need to know. And also, WHY DO THE UNLIKELY SCENARIOS ALWAYS REVOLVE AROUND SCHOOL BUSES????? WHY????

I've given you the troubled past between estimation and I. I know if this was a movie, estimation and I would solve our differences, I'd realize it's history with school buses involved estimation's first love and that's why it feels insistent on using them often, and we'd run slo-mo into each other's virtual arms and declare our everlasting friendship- I mean, that's what I'm estimating. However, the sad reality is estimation and I are on speaking terms, but only during fiestas. When it's required.

Mr. Battaglia has shown us a nice, easy way to estimate that I am learning to accept. I admit, we still have struggles at times- most commonly involving fruit flies (ahem)- HOWEVER, (I think Mr. Battaglia is regretting giving me free reign over my own little section of the Internet where I can freely go on tangents without Mikayla around to PROCESSCHEEECK! me- or at least committing to reading it) it is typically easier to understand than some of the other ways I've been taught.

It involves powers of ten. 10^0 is one, 10^1 is ten, 10^2 is one hundred, and so on. My main issue is once we get to one thousand to ten thousand and things like that, believe it or not. It's hard for me to picture things as big as that, I think is the problem. I typically don't see whether one thousand or ten thousand fruit flies are the length of the bus, so it is very difficult for me to imagine. I need to work on the huge values and how to grasp it. Hopefully I'll get a chance to ask Mr. Battaglia- I'm estimating Monday or Wednesday- what he recommends.

As you can see, estimation and I still have a ways to go, but we are making progress, and hopefully we'll continue to move forward. On a school bus. (I'm estimating.)


***Estimated amount of estimating jokes: 5 (FINE, I counted!)***