Another great idea from a Math Solutions presentation on Making Sense of Fraction Computations:
Tell Me All You Can prompts encourage reasonableness when computing with fractions, and can be used to promote estimation for all computation:
~ The answer is going to be around/about ________________ because _________________________.
~ The answer is going to be close to _______________ because _________________________.
~ The answer is going to be between ____________ and ____________
because _____________________.
~ The answer is going to be greater than ________________ because
____________________.
~ The answer is going to be less than ________________ because
____________________.