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Maths: Rounding to 100 – 21st May 2020

Watch the video about how to round numbers. Rounding is really useful because it allows to estimateEstimating allows us to work out number sentences quickly giving us an idea of the answer. We can use it to check our workings out are broadly correct as well.

Remember to watch the video. Stopping and rewinding it till you confidently understand how to round to 100!

Round this numbers to 100 

Example: 156  would mean you look at the Tens column (156) and that number tells you to round up or down. So in this case I would round up and the answer would be 200!

1] 419     2] 744      3] 32      5] 389       6] 292      7] 965      8] 644        9] 598        10] 1535

Extension

Now, round the numbers to 100 in the number sentence and then add or subtract to get an estimation of the answer!

Example: 435 (400) +   879 (900)  =  1300

1]   780+23o=       2]   240+590=      3] 786+815=     4]  127+199=     5]  228+471=

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