Rounding Starters:Absolutely Everyone: A choice of questions about the current world population which is constantly changing. Moon Lengths: Estimate the distances shown on this photograph of the moon's surface. Pi Day: March 14th is Pi Day. The third month and the 14th day relates to 3.14 which is pi to three significant figures. How many figures of pi can you memorise? Rounding 1dp: Round off the given numbers to 1 decimal place then add the answers together. Rounding 2dp: Round off the given numbers to 2 decimal places then add the answers together. Rounding Whole: Round off the given numbers to the nearest whole number then add the answers together.
Small images of these Starters :: Index of Starters SuggestedRounding Ten Round the numbers to the nearest whole number or the given power of ten.
Curriculum for Rounding:Year 5Pupils should be taught to use rounding to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, levels of accuracy more... Pupils should be taught to round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000 more... Pupils should be taught to round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place more... Year 6Pupils should be taught to round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy more... Pupils should be taught to identify the value of each digit in numbers given to three decimal places and multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 giving answers up to three decimal places more... Pupils should be taught to use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy. more... Pupils should be taught to solve problems which require answers to be rounded to specified degrees of accuracy more... Years 7 to 9Pupils should be taught to round numbers and measures to an appropriate degree of accuracy [for example, to a number of decimal places or significant figures] more... Pupils should be taught to use approximation through rounding to estimate answers and calculate possible resulting errors expressed using inequality notation a<x≤b more... Years 10 and 11Pupils should be taught to apply and interpret limits of accuracy when rounding or truncating, {including upper and lower bounds} more... Exam-Style Questions:There are almost a thousand exam-style questions unique to the Transum website. Feedback:Comment recorded on the 2 May 'Starter of the Day' page by Angela Lowry, : "I think these are great! So useful and handy, the children love them. Comment recorded on the 14 October 'Starter of the Day' page by Inger Kisby, Herts and Essex High School: "Just a quick note to say that we use a lot of your starters. It is lovely to have so many different ideas to start a lesson with. 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Notes:The objective of rounding is often to get a number that is easier to use, at the cost of making it less precise. This approximation is very important in dealing with answers to mathematical problems and making them relevant to the real world. Rounding to a given number of decimal places or significant figures is required of pupils.
Rounding Teacher Resources:Decimals Line: A number line showing tenths and hundredths with draggable arrows. This is a visual aid designed to be projected onto a whiteboard for whole class exposition Rounding Snap: If the last card put down equals the previous card to the nearest whole number then all players race to shout SNAP! Rounding Activities:Rounding Ten: Round the numbers to the nearest whole number or the given power of ten. Rounding DP: A self marking exercise requiring students to round numbers to a given number of decimal places. Rounding SF: A self marking exercise requiring students to round numbers to a given number of significant figures. Rounding Snap: If the last card put down equals the previous card to the nearest whole number then all players race to shout SNAP! Rough Answers: An exercise on rounding values in a calculation to find an approximate estimate of the answer. Upper and Lower Bounds: Determine the upper and lower bounds when rounding or truncating quantities used in calculations. Rounding Videos:Rounding Video: A reminder of how to round numbers to significant figures, decimal places and to the nearest power of ten. Upper and Lower Bounds Video: A reminder of how to find the limits of accuracy of rounded values. Rounding Worksheets/Printables:Rounding Snap Cards: Printable cards for the Rounding Snap game. Rounding External Links:Links to other websites containing resources for Rounding are provided for those logged into 'Transum Mathematics'. Subscribing also opens up the opportunity for you to add your own links to this panel. You can sign up using one of the buttons below: SearchThe activity you are looking for may have been classified in a different way from the way you were expecting. You can search the whole of Transum Maths by using the box below.
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QI,
Monday, February 28, 2022
"Who was the first person to put two feet on the top of Everest?
It was Radhanath Sikdar who had a special aptitude for trigonometry. Back in the 1850s he used a theodolite located 150 miles away to measure the height as being exactly 29,000 feet. He thought people would not be impressed with the accuracy of his measurement as it was a multiple of a thousand so he added two feet to make the measurement 29,002 feet. Thus he became the first person to put two feet on the top of Everest!
Quite Interesting!"
Transum,
Thursday, October 24, 2024
"Do you need an interesting story to tell when teaching Rounding? I read in The Times newspaper that "There was some hand-wringing at MI5 in 2010 when the government admitted that 'a formatting fault on an electronic spreadsheet' had led to the Security Service and the Serious Organised Crime Agency to tap 134 incorrect telephone numbers. A user had told the program to round up the numbers so that it changed the last three digits to zeros.""