Rounding

Round 67 to the nearest ten.

• 60

• 65

• 50

• 70

Lucy bought 48 pencils for school. Rounded to the nearest ten, about how many pencils does Lucy have? Explain your thinking.

Round 32 to the nearest ten.

• 20

• 30

• 35

• 40

Round to the nearest ten: 86

Rounding means...

• finding the exact answer.

• always making a number smaller.

• always making a number bigger.

• making a number simpler, but keeping its value closer to what it was.

Round 12.87 to nearest ones place.

• 12.9

• 13

• 12.90

• 13.0

Round 3,450 to the nearest hundred.

• 3,500

• 3,550

• 3,000

• 4,000

Estimate the sum of 7,654 and 3,210 by rounding each number to the nearest hundred.

• 10,800

• 10,900

• 11,100

Rounding Poem
Find your PLACE. ​ (a)   or ​ (b)   ​ add one more.​ (c)   or​ (d)   leave it alone. Numbers in front, ​ stay the same. Numbers behind become ​ (e)   .

• Five

• Four

• less

• zero

• one

• greater

• stay

• three

• two

Estimate the difference between 9,876 and 4,321 by rounding each number to the nearest thousand.

• 5,000

• 6,000

• 5,500