Free Grade 3 Estimation in Context Worksheets
Free Grade 3 worksheets for Estimation in Context: 12 real questions with a full answer key and worked solutions. Rounding gives a simpler number that is close to the real one. Look at the digit just right of the place you round to: 5 or more rounds up, 4 or less rounds down.
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Learning objectives
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- UnderstandExplain estimation in context
Explain estimation in context accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
- ApplyCalculate estimation in context
Calculate estimation in context accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
- AnalyseCompare estimation in context
Compare estimation in context accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
- EvaluateJustify estimation in context
Justify estimation in context accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
Prerequisites
Close these gaps first — each has its own free lesson, worksheet and quiz.
How Estimation in Context works
Rounding gives a simpler number that is close to the real one. Look at the digit just right of the place you round to: 5 or more rounds up, 4 or less rounds down.
12 practice questions
Easy to hard, 24 marks in total. Try them first, then open the answers.
- 1.Round 620 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 2.Round 513 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 3.Round 515 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 4.Round 203 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 5.Round 8,602 to the nearest 10.[2]
- 6.Round 9,927 to the nearest 10.[2]
- 7.Round 2,582 to the nearest 100.[2]
- 8.Round 1,544 to the nearest 10.[2]
- 9.Round 19,339 to the nearest 1,000.[3]
- 10.Round 40,226 to the nearest 100.[3]
- 11.Round 15,840 to the nearest 1,000.[3]
- 12.Round 80,717 to the nearest 1,000.[3]
Show answers and working
1. 620
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 620 and 620. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 620 rounds to 620.
2. 510
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 510 and 520. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 513 rounds to 510.
3. 520
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 510 and 520. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 515 rounds to 520.
4. 200
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 200 and 210. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 203 rounds to 200.
5. 8,600
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 8600 and 8610. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 8602 rounds to 8600.
6. 9,930
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 9920 and 9930. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 9927 rounds to 9930.
7. 2,600
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 2500 and 2600. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 2582 rounds to 2600.
8. 1,540
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 1540 and 1550. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 1544 rounds to 1540.
9. 19,000
Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 19000 and 20000. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 19339 rounds to 19000.
10. 40,200
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 40200 and 40300. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 40226 rounds to 40200.
11. 16,000
Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 15000 and 16000. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 15840 rounds to 16000.
12. 81,000
Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 80000 and 81000. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 80717 rounds to 81000.
Worked examples
Round 766 to the nearest 10.
- Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 760 and 770.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 766 rounds to 770.
- Answer: 770
Round 6,122 to the nearest 100.
- Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 6100 and 6200.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 6122 rounds to 6100.
- Answer: 6,100
Round 85,926 to the nearest 1,000.
- Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 85000 and 86000.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 85926 rounds to 86000.
- Answer: 86,000
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Common mistakes
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Looks at the wrong digit to decide whether to round up.
Correction: Underline the rounding place, then circle the digit to its right.
Changes the digits after the rounding place to anything other than 0.
Correction: Every digit after the rounding place becomes 0.
Teacher tips
- · Use a number line showing the two multiples either side.
Parent tips
- · Estimate the shopping bill to the nearest dollar.
Real-life applications
- · Estimating the total of a shopping trip before paying.
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- What should a learner already know before this?
- Start with Working with Estimation, Introducing Estimation, Rounding. Each one has its own free lesson, worksheet and quiz.
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- Recognition first, then understanding, application, reasoning and finally mastery — the same ladder used across every free resource on the platform.
- What comes next after Estimation in Context?
- Move on to Reading Whole Numbers, Place Value, Digits, Comparing Numbers, which build directly on this idea.
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