What is estimation?

Have you ever tried to guess how many sweets are in a giant glass jar? It is super tricky! Usually, if you ask just one person, their guess is way off. But what if you asked hundreds of people and put all their wrong guesses together? Could they magically find the exact right answer? Join Mira and Finn on a time-traveling trip back to a bustling country fair in Plymouth, England, in the year 1906! Right in the middle of the fair was a massive, heavy ox. A curious scientist named Francis Galton watched as 787 people paid a tiny coin to guess the giant animal's weight. Some guesses were way too high, and some were way too low. But when Galton lined up every single piece of cardboard and found the exact middle guess, something unbelievable happened! The crowd’s middle guess was 1,207 pounds, missing the real weight by less than one percent! Discover the amazing mathematical magic of estimation, learn what a "median" is, and find out why the "wisdom of the crowd" means that we are always smarter when we work together! You will be a master at guessing games!