Rounding/Estimation
Kyle has a graph that he needs to fill out for how many pennies he has. The graph skip counts by 100s from 0 to 500. He has 372 pennies, but he doesn’t know where to plot his point. Where does he need to plot the point by rounding to the nearest hundred on the graph?
What is 400 pennies?
There are 63 flowers growing in nine rows. How many columns of flowers are there?
What is seven columns?
Ishita has 146 apples. She ate 57 of them. How many apples does she have left.?
What is 89 apples?
Vaibhav and Derek were in a pie eating contest. Vaibhav ate ⅓ of an pie and Derek ate ⅕ of a pie. Who won?
Who is Vaibhav?
Wilbur's pigpen measures 3 meters by 9 meters. What is the area of his pigpen?
What is 27 square meters?
Shouryan draws a number line with the numbers 400 and 500 as the end points. He plots the number 466. What number would he round to?
What is 500?
Sragvi’s mom needed 4 packs of eggs for a giant birthday cake. 1 pack has 6 eggs. How many eggs does Sragvi’s mom use if she uses all the eggs?
What is 24 eggs?
Alisha picked 143 cherries. Her brother picked 294 cherries. How much do they have in total?
What is 437 cherries?
There is a pie which has 10 pieces. Veda eats one half of the pie and Ana eats 1 tenth of the pie. How many pieces are left?
What is 4 pieces of pie?
Fern built a rectangular pen for Wilbur. The pen is 8 yards by 7 yards. What is the the perimeter of Wilbur's pen?
What is 30 yards?
A toy company made 175 teddy bears this week. The boss didn’t like the amount of teddy bears they made, so he suggested to round up the number of teddy bears to the nearest hundred. If they rounded the number of teddy bears to the nearest hundred, what is the hundred they rounded to?
What is about 200 teddy bears?
Mrs. Thomas has 6 boxes of shirts to tie-dye. There are 9 shirts in each box. How many shirts does she have?
What is 54 shirts?
A chef has 315 pounds of pizza dough, and he has 567 pounds of bread dough. He mixes them together. How much does the dough weigh?
What is 882 pounds?
Leo eats two thirds of a pizza. Ruthvik eats two sixths of a pizza. Do they eat the same amount of pizza?
What is: no, they do not eat the same amount?
There is a huge rectangular cake at Jana’s birthday party. One side measures 3 feet and the other side measures 8 feet. How many 1 square foot pieces can the cake be cut into?
What is 24 square foot pieces?
Mayukha picked 933 tomatoes while harvesting vegetables and 397 had bites in them. Round each number to the nearest hundred to find out about how many hundreds of tomatoes did NOT have bites in them.
What is 500 tomatoes?
Arjan has $48. He gave away all his money equally to his dad, mom, 2 sisters, and his 2 younger brothers. How much money did he give to his dad?
What is $8?
The Zoo had 206 animals. 119 animals were evacuated. How many animals were left?
What is 87 animals?
Anas ate 2/4 of a pizza. Then he took a break. Later, he ate 1/2 of the pizza. How much pizza did he eat that day?
What is 1 whole pizza?
Da Fu tells Minli that Never Ending Mountain is a regular decagon. He says that one of side length is 25 km. What is the perimeter for Never Ending Mountain?
What is 250 km?
Forest Park has 322 third graders, 123 fourth graders, and 565 fifth graders. About how many third, fourth, and fifth graders are there at Forest Park rounded to the nearest hundred?
What is about 1,000 third, fourth, and fifth graders?
Charlotte has 72 eggs in her egg sac. If they hatch in groups of 9, how many groups of spiders will hatch?
What is 8 groups of spiders?
For a graduation party, Tamanvi's mom cooked 964 chocolate chip cookies for the students to eat. The students ate 715 chocolate chip cookies. How many chocolate chip cookies are left?
What is 249 cookies?
Anushree drew a number line with fourths from 0-2 wholes. She does not know what goes in between 2/4 and 2 wholes. What are the fractions in between the numbers?
What are ¾, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4?
Austin is doing a tangram. He has 6 squares. The perimeter for one square is 16. He created a rectangle with six squares. What is one possible perimeter of the rectangle?
What is 84 units, OR 60 units?