Round and Round We Go

Do you feel like your students are on a merry-go-round when it comes to rounding? This lesson will give your student control of the “ride” and give them tools to use when rounding.

Learning Objectives

Students will use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.

Introduction

(5 minutes)

Before beginning this lesson, review place value with students. Ensure that they know the ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, and ten thousands places.
Ask students if they know what rounding is and how to do it.
Take volunteers to explain it in their own words. Define rounding as altering a number to make it less concise but more convenient.
Explain to students that today they are going to use place values to round numbers to a given place value.