Free Grade 3 Working with Rounding Quizzes
Free Grade 3 quizzes 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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Learning objectives
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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 141 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 2.Round 611 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 3.Round 736 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 4.Round 770 to the nearest 10.[1]
- 5.Round 4,184 to the nearest 100.[2]
- 6.Round 3,412 to the nearest 10.[2]
- 7.Round 7,146 to the nearest 100.[2]
- 8.Round 7,451 to the nearest 100.[2]
- 9.Round 18,772 to the nearest 100.[3]
- 10.Round 69,226 to the nearest 1,000.[3]
- 11.Round 30,975 to the nearest 100.[3]
- 12.Round 42,610 to the nearest 1,000.[3]
Show answers and working
1. 140
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 140 and 150. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 141 rounds to 140.
2. 610
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 610 and 620. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 611 rounds to 610.
3. 740
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 730 and 740. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 736 rounds to 740.
4. 770
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 770 and 770. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 770 rounds to 770.
5. 4,200
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 4100 and 4200. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 4184 rounds to 4200.
6. 3,410
Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 3410 and 3420. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 3412 rounds to 3410.
7. 7,100
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. 7146 rounds to 7100.
8. 7,500
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 7400 and 7500. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 7451 rounds to 7500.
9. 18,800
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 18700 and 18800. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 18772 rounds to 18800.
10. 69,000
Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 69000 and 70000. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 69226 rounds to 69000.
11. 31,000
Find the two multiples of 100 either side: 30900 and 31000. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 30975 rounds to 31000.
12. 43,000
Find the two multiples of 1000 either side: 42000 and 43000. Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up. 42610 rounds to 43000.
Worked examples
Round 622 to the nearest 10.
- Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 620 and 630.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 622 rounds to 620.
- Answer: 620
Round 896 to the nearest 10.
- Find the two multiples of 10 either side: 890 and 900.
- Look at the digit to the right of the rounding place: 5 or more rounds up.
- 896 rounds to 900.
- Answer: 900
Round 61,740 to the nearest 1,000.
- 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.
- 61740 rounds to 62000.
- Answer: 62,000
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 quiz 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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