Thursday
Thursday: About how many?
Chris the Coyote pulls a notebook from his storyteller's satchel.
"Last spring, Bennie counted the stones in the long trail wall," he says.
"There were 4,627 stones. That took him all afternoon!"
"When Lizzy asked how many, he did not say the exact number."
"He said, about five thousand."
Chris taps his feather hat. "Why would Bennie say that?"
"Because a rounded number is easy to say and easy to picture."
"Today you will learn to round like Bennie."
Learn it: round to the nearest thousand
4,627 is between 4,000 and 5,000.
The halfway point is 4,500.
4,627 is past halfway, so it rounds up to 5,000.
A shortcut: look at the digit to the right of the rounding place.
If it is 5 or more, round up. If it is less than 5, keep the digit.
Then write zeros in every place to the right.
- Read the question.
- Tap your answer.
Round 4,627 to the nearest thousand.Learn it: round to any place
To round 63,812 to the nearest ten thousand, find the ten thousands digit: 6.
The digit to its right is 3. That is less than 5.
So 63,812 rounds to 60,000.
- Think about how Bennie rounds.
- Tap the steps in order.
- Read the question.
- Tap your answer.
- Read the question.
- Tap your answer.
How many stones did Bennie count?| Sentence | True or false? |
|---|---|
| 4,627 rounded to the nearest thousand is 5,000. | ? |
| 63,812 rounded to the nearest ten thousand is 70,000. | ? |
| 8,463 rounded to the nearest hundred is 8,500. | ? |
Look at the last page number.
Round it to the nearest hundred.
Tell someone about how many pages the book has.
Wonderful rounding! Tomorrow Freddy has a place value game.