Cyberchase Games: Rounding

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

3, 4

Overview

Discover how rounding off numbers helps you estimate faster. Round the numbers and make an estimation about their totals in this interactive Cyberchase activity.

Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 3

MA19.3.10

Identify the nearest 10 or 100 when rounding whole numbers, using place value understanding.

UP:MA19.3.10

Vocabulary

  • Place value
  • Round
  • Nearest 10
  • Nearest 100
  • Benchmark number
  • Midpoint

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Values of the digits in the ones, tens, and hundreds places.
  • How to determine what is halfway between two multiples of 10 or 100.
  • Strategies for rounding to the nearest 10 or 100.
  • Use place value vocabulary and logical reasoning to justify solutions when rounding.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.
  • Identify a possible value for a number which will result in a given number rounded to the nearest 10 or 100.
    Example: What value will result in 270 when rounded to the nearest 10? Identify the possible values.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • rounding is determining which ten or hundred a number is closer to.
Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 4

MA19.4.9

Round multi-digit whole numbers to any place using place value understanding.

UP:MA19.4.9

Vocabulary

  • Round
  • Place value
  • Ones
  • Tens
  • Hundreds
  • Thousands
  • Ten thousands
  • Approximately
  • Halfway point

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The relationship among positions of digits in a number and place value. They can use that knowledge to round numbers to nay place.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use place value strategies to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • rounding multi-digit numbers is an estimation strategy used when writing the original number as the closest multiple of a power of 10.

CR Resource Type

Interactive/Game

Resource Provider

PBS

License Type

CUSTOM
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