How to Round Multi-Digit Numbers

Are you rounding up or rounding down?

4 or 5 or
less more

5
6
round round

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down up

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Highlight or underline Look at the neighboring

Is it 4 or less? Is it 5
the place value you are number to determine or more?
rounding which way to round. 24,645
24,645 24,645
 Let’s Take a Closer Look

After looking at the number 24,645, did you round up or round down?

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Round to the nearest tens place.

Look right! 24,645 = 24,650

 Rounding in the Tens Place
Let’s look at the number:

216
Discussion questions:

Turn and talk with your partner.

1.What do you notice? 

2.What number is in the ones place?
3.What number is in the tens place?
4.What does the tens place number tell us?
5.Do we round up or do we round down?
6.How do you know?
 Discuss the Tens Place

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1. Did you notice that you had a number in the ones, tens, and hundreds place?

2. What did you do to identify or isolate the tens place number?

 Work With a Partner

With a partner, turn and talk, use the strategies and find the answer in the tens place.

699
 It’s Time for the Hundreds Place!
• Underline the hundreds place.

• Look at the neighboring number to decide if you should round up or down.

2,0000
1,9960

Round up!
 Work With a Partner

With a partner, turn and talk, use the strategies and find the answer in the hundreds place.

5,899
With your partner:

1. What do you notice about the number?

2. Use strategies to isolate or identify the hundreds place.

3. Do you round up or down? Use a number line to help you.

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 Discuss the Hundreds Place
We are looking at the hundreds place for the nearest whole number.

6,000
5,899
Discuss your strategies of rounding with your peers.

Round up!
 Rounding in the Thousands Place

Look at the number:

68,729

What number is in the thousands place?

Did you underline or highlight your number?

What does the neighboring number tell us to do?

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 Discuss the Thousands Place

What did you discover?

68,729
69,000
You should have ROUNDED UP! Your number should now be 69,000. The number 8’s
neighbor, number 7, tells us to round up. The number 7 is more than 5, telling us to round up.
 Your Turn!

1. Round 346 to the nearest tens place.  350

2. Round 2,041 to the nearest hundreds place. 2,000

3. Round 13,855 to the nearest thousands place.  14,000

 Exit Ticket

Write two things you learned today and one thing you still question.

For example,

1. I learned how to round up.

2. I learned how to round down.

3. I still do not understand how to use strategies.

Any Questions?