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Rounding Numbers Review

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What this worksheet covers

Grade: Grade 4 (Elementary School)
Topic: Rounding Numbers

Rounding to reach an approximate figure is practiced across shifting places: To the Tens Place, To the Hundreds Place, To the Thousands Place and To 2 Significant Digits. From there the work moves to estimating sums, differences, products and quotients from rounded numbers, and applies the same idea in word problems.

The most frequent error is rounding off the hundreds digit itself when told to round to the hundreds place, a mix-up over which place to act on. One zero too many or too few at the end of the answer reveals it. With 2 significant digits, numbers containing a 0 throw off where the counting starts, and the rounding lands one place early.

Before parentheses arrive as something new in Rules of Calculation, the skill of treating a number as approximate gets finished off here. The quotient-guessing built up in Division by 2-Digit Numbers is reorganized into formal rounding rules for estimating the answer to any of the four operations. That rounding skill is called on again in grade 5, when Division of Decimals asks for an answer given as an approximate figure.

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Problems and answers on this worksheet

These are the problems in “Rounding Numbers”, shown with their answers.

(1)Hannah counted flowers at the park. There are 1856 white flowers and 2473 red flowers blooming. About how many are blooming in all? Round each number to the hundreds place, then add the rounded numbers to find the answer. Answer □
Answer: 4400flowers
(2)According to a survey of the area where Riley lives, 4321 people live in the east area and 2789 people live in the west area. About how many more people are in the east area than the west area? Round to the hundreds place to find the rounded number. Answer □
Answer: 1500people
(3)At the stand in front of the station, 83 chocolates are sold in 1 day. About how many will be sold in 74 days? Round each number to 1 digit from the left, then use the rounded numbers to find the answer. Answer □
Answer: 5600chocolates
(4)There are 5923 eggs collected at the poultry farm. If they are shared equally among 63 people, about how many will each 1 person get? Round to 1 digit from the left to get the rounded number, then find the answer. Answer □
Answer: 100eggs

What to do next

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