Free Grade 3 Working with Rounding Essentials Lessons
Free Grade 3 lessons 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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Foundation
20 min
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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 720 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 2.Round 396 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 3.Round 662 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 4.Round 765 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 5.Round 2,832 to the nearest 10.[2]
- 6.Round 6,722 to the nearest 10.[2]
- 7.Round 3,054 to the nearest 100.[2]
- 8.Round 7,092 to the nearest 10.[2]
- 9.Round 61,238 to the nearest 1,000.[3]
- 10.Round 69,899 to the nearest 100.[3]
- 11.Round 79,565 to the nearest 100.[3]
- 12.Round 17,259 to the nearest 1,000.[3]
Show answers and working
1. 720
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 720 and 720. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 720 rounds to 720.
2. 400
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 390 and 400. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 396 rounds to 400.
3. 660
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 660 and 670. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 662 rounds to 660.
4. 770
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. 765 rounds to 770.
5. 2,830
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 2830 and 2840. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 2832 rounds to 2830.
6. 6,720
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 6720 and 6730. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 6722 rounds to 6720.
7. 3,100
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 3000 and 3100. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 3054 rounds to 3100.
8. 7,090
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 7090 and 7100. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 7092 rounds to 7090.
9. 61,000
Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 61000 and 62000. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 61238 rounds to 61000.
10. 69,900
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 69800 and 69900. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 69899 rounds to 69900.
11. 79,600
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 79500 and 79600. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 79565 rounds to 79600.
12. 17,000
Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 17000 and 18000. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 17259 rounds to 17000.
Worked examples
Round 760 to the nearest 10.
- Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 760 and 760.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 760 rounds to 760.
- Answer: 760
Round 1,827 to the nearest 10.
- Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 1820 and 1830.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 1827 rounds to 1830.
- Answer: 1,830
Round 32,247 to the nearest 1,000.
- Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 32000 and 33000.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 32247 rounds to 32000.
- Answer: 32,000
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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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- 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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