Rounding and Place Value

Suppose you won a $6,674 prize and you can chose a rounded amount. Which place value would you round to receive the greatest amount of prize money?

• Thousands

• Hundreds

• Tens

• Ones

Fancher Creek Elementary has 837 students enrolled in the year 2020 - 2021. To the nearest hundred, about how many students are enrolled at Fancher Creek Elemntary?

• 900

• 800

• 830

• 930

Netflix has 1,569 TV shows that customers can stream if they are subscribed. To the nearest hundred, about how many TV shows does Netflix have?

• 1,500

• 2,000

• 1,570

• 1,600

The rule for rounding numbers states that if a number is exactly halfway between, round up. What is 46,500 rounded to the nearest thousand?

• 40,000

• 46,500

• 47,000

• 50,000

Round 27,955 to the nearest hundred.

• 27,900

• 28,955

• 28,000

• 900

Rounding means

• add

• to move the numbers up or down depending on the place value 

• moving

Round To The Nearest Ten Thousand

• 88,000

• 90,211

• 90,000

• 87,200

Round To The Nearest Thousand

• 26,000

• 25,700

• 25,000

• 20,000

100,000 = _____ tens

• 10,000

• 1,000

• 100

• 10

There are 73,299 employee that works for STAR lab. To the nearest thousand, about how many employees works for STAR lab?

• 73,000

• 74,000

• 73,200

• 73,300