How Many Bugs?

Estimate how many bugs are here.

Subject: Mathematics
Topic: Statistics and Probability
Grades: 3 - 5
Concepts: Estimate

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Hands-On Math Movie:

Growing BugsGrowing Bugs

"What? Growing bugs is a real job? And it requires math?!" Organic farmers depend on Jan Dietrick to supply them with good bugs that attack bad bugs. She depends on her knowledge of numbers to get the job done.
Running time 1:19 minutes.

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