Free Grade 3 Working with Rounding Essentials Quizzes
Free Grade 3 quizzes for Working with Rounding Essentials: 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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- RememberIdentify working with rounding essentials
Identify working with rounding essentials accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
- UnderstandExplain working with rounding essentials
Explain working with rounding essentials accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
- ApplyCalculate working with rounding essentials
Calculate working with rounding essentials accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
- AnalyseCompare working with rounding essentials
Compare working with rounding essentials accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
Prerequisites
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How Working with Rounding Essentials 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 714 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 2.Round 555 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 3.Round 566 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 4.Round 428 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 5.Round 1,095 to the nearest 10.[2]
- 6.Round 8,393 to the nearest 100.[2]
- 7.Round 5,749 to the nearest 100.[2]
- 8.Round 5,502 to the nearest 10.[2]
- 9.Round 64,033 to the nearest 100.[3]
- 10.Round 81,621 to the nearest 1,000.[3]
- 11.Round 11,818 to the nearest 1,000.[3]
- 12.Round 6,769 to the nearest 1,000.[3]
Show answers and working
1. 710
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 710 and 720. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 714 rounds to 710.
2. 560
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 550 and 560. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 555 rounds to 560.
3. 570
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 560 and 570. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 566 rounds to 570.
4. 430
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 420 and 430. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 428 rounds to 430.
5. 1,100
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 1090 and 1100. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 1095 rounds to 1100.
6. 8,400
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 8300 and 8400. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 8393 rounds to 8400.
7. 5,700
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 5700 and 5800. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 5749 rounds to 5700.
8. 5,500
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 5500 and 5510. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 5502 rounds to 5500.
9. 64,000
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 64000 and 64100. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 64033 rounds to 64000.
10. 82,000
Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 81000 and 82000. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 81621 rounds to 82000.
11. 12,000
Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 11000 and 12000. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 11818 rounds to 12000.
12. 7,000
Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 6000 and 7000. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 6769 rounds to 7000.
Worked examples
Round 454 to the nearest 10.
- Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 450 and 460.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 454 rounds to 450.
- Answer: 450
Round 5,303 to the nearest 10.
- Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 5300 and 5310.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 5303 rounds to 5300.
- Answer: 5,300
Round 23,086 to the nearest 1,000.
- Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 23000 and 24000.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 23086 rounds to 23000.
- Answer: 23,000
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Common mistakes
What learners typically get wrong, and how to fix it.
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 Introducing Rounding. Each one has its own free lesson, worksheet and quiz.
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- Move on to Working with Rounding Techniques, Working with Rounding Word Problems, Working with Rounding Common Errors, Introducing Rounding, which build directly on this idea.
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