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My favorite technique is estimation. I loved guessing how many jellybeans were in a jar as a kid and would come up with the most ludicrous strategies. I can’t wait to come up with similar tasks for my students. The idea of predicting two border values, a high and low, before doing the actual prediction was new to me and I cannot wait to see how that works in my classroom at improving the reasonableness of my students’ guesses