How many feet?

We have been working on making estimates and then checking our estimates.  In Math Workshop, we read the book How Big is a Foot?

The story was about a King who has a special bed made for his Queen's birthday.  The King measured out how tall and wide he needed the bed by using his feet.  By the time the carpenter's tiny apprentice made the bed, measuring with his tiny feet, the bed did not fit the Queen!

We made estimates about how many "teacher feet" long a jump rope was.  Then we got our actual measurement:  it was 10 teacher steps long.  Then we estimated and measured with different student feet.  Some were quite different!

Then each student got to estimate and measure how many of their steps long the jump rope was.

We got pretty good at estimating!