Thursday, August 25, 2016

Looking to Practice Rounding?

We worked on rounding today in class and the students did a great job! I am posting lesson sequence and a rhyme that might help your child at home in case they are still working on finishing their assignment or if you would like to continue to practice with them. Here is how it was taught in class:

Step 1: Find your place value and underline the digit. (If it asks to round to the nearest ten, find the "tens" place, if it asks to round to the nearest hundred, find the "hundreds" place, if it asks to round to the nearest thousand, find the "thousands" place.
Step 2: Look at the neighbor directly to the right and determine if it is 4 or less or 5 or more. If the number is less than 4, the underlined digit remains the same. If it is 5 or more, the underlined digit changes by adding 1. Remember our rhyme! 4 or less, digit to the left stays the same, 5 or more, digit the left makes a change.
Step 3: Once you figure out your underlined place value, ALL digits to the right change to "0."

Hope this helps! You can also go to this SITE and play some games that will help rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. 

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