Free Grade 3 Working with Rounding Worksheets
Free Grade 3 worksheets for Working with Rounding: 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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30 min
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- RememberIdentify working with rounding
Identify working with rounding accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
- UnderstandExplain working with rounding
Explain working with rounding accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
- ApplyCalculate working with rounding
Calculate working with rounding accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
- AnalyseCompare working with rounding
Compare working with rounding accurately in a familiar context.
Assessed by: Exit ticket of four short items
Prerequisites
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How Working with Rounding 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 352 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 2.Round 128 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 3.Round 228 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 4.Round 465 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 5.Round 7,178 to the nearest 100.[2]
- 6.Round 4,826 to the nearest 100.[2]
- 7.Round 8,863 to the nearest 100.[2]
- 8.Round 3,347 to the nearest 100.[2]
- 9.Round 32,695 to the nearest 1,000.[3]
- 10.Round 76,684 to the nearest 100.[3]
- 11.Round 31,722 to the nearest 100.[3]
- 12.Round 23,850 to the nearest 1,000.[3]
Show answers and working
1. 350
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 350 and 360. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 352 rounds to 350.
2. 130
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 120 and 130. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 128 rounds to 130.
3. 230
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 220 and 230. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 228 rounds to 230.
4. 470
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 460 and 470. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 465 rounds to 470.
5. 7,200
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 7100 and 7200. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 7178 rounds to 7200.
6. 4,800
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 4800 and 4900. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 4826 rounds to 4800.
7. 8,900
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 8800 and 8900. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 8863 rounds to 8900.
8. 3,300
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 3300 and 3400. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 3347 rounds to 3300.
9. 33,000
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. 32695 rounds to 33000.
10. 76,700
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 76600 and 76700. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 76684 rounds to 76700.
11. 31,700
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 31700 and 31800. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 31722 rounds to 31700.
12. 24,000
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. 23850 rounds to 24000.
Worked examples
Round 722 to the nearest 10.
- Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 720 and 730.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 722 rounds to 720.
- Answer: 720
Round 5,324 to the nearest 10.
- Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 5320 and 5330.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 5324 rounds to 5320.
- Answer: 5,320
Round 24,490 to the nearest 1,000.
- Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 24000 and 25000.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 24490 rounds to 24000.
- Answer: 24,000
Interactive practice
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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, Word Form. Each one has its own free lesson, worksheet and quiz.
- How is the worksheet sequenced?
- Recognition first, then understanding, application, reasoning and finally mastery — the same ladder used across every free resource on the platform.
- What comes next after Working with Rounding?
- Move on to Rounding in Context, Reading Whole Numbers, Place Value, Digits, which build directly on this idea.
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