Year 4 practice in rounding to the nearest 10, over three pages. A rule box says ones digits 1 to 4 round down and 5 to 9 round up, with 45 shown on a short number line. Pupils then round 20 numbers in a table, from 23 and 58 to 4,998 and 1,995. Page 2 has three thinking questions, one of which asks for the smallest whole number that rounds to 80. The last page gives the filled table and the answers. It follows England National Curriculum rounding.
Number - number and place value
“round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000”
Task 1 has pupils round 20 numbers to the nearest 10, and 99, 4,998 and 1,995 test the move into a new hundred or thousand.
Number - number and place value
“recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones)”
The halfway rule starts from the ones digit, so numbers such as 3,456 and 7,555 need pupils to pick out that digit first.
A box with three bullet points about the ones digit, and a number line from 40 to 50 with an arc jumping from 45 to 50.
Twenty numbers in three blocks of columns, from 23, 58 and 45 through 302 and 3,456 to 9,349 and 1,995, each with a space for the nearest 10.
Pupils find which numbers in their table rounded up to a new hundred or thousand, write three numbers that round to 50, and use a line from 70 to 80 to find the smallest number that rounds to 80.
A filled table with notes on the three questions. Question 1 lists 99, 895, 4,998 and 1,995.
Teaching the rule
Read the rule box together. Ask pupils to say the ones digit of 45, 91 and 99 aloud before they fill in the table.
Marking in pairs
Partners swap sheets and mark the table from page 3. Then talk through question 1 as a class.
Early finishers
Ask them to list every whole number that rounds to 50, then check the list against question 2.
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