Showing posts with label rounding numbers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rounding numbers. Show all posts
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Rounding to nearest Hundred
To help my child learn the concept of rounding to the nearest hundred I used two sentence paper strips to make a number line from 100-900. I cut out 2 x 2" squares of card stock and wrote on some random numbers. We made a little game out of finding which 2 hundreds the given numbers were in between, laying the given number on the number line. Then I marked off the "middles"...150, 250, 350 in red...explaining that if the tens place of the given number is 5 or above then you round up to the next hundred. For example 252 would be rounded up to 300 since the tens place is a 5 or above. I presented this to my daughter by placing the numbers under the correct answer.
Labels:
3rd grade math,
homemade Montessori,
math,
rounding numbers,
visual
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