Rounding
Round this number to the nearest ten and hundred.
548
Nearest ten: 550
Nearest hundred: 500
There are 384 cats in an animal shelter. 176 more cats are brought into the shelter. How many cats are in the shelter now?
There are 560 cats in the shelter now.
Leo has 33 pieces of candy leftover from Easter. If he gives 14 pieces of candy away to his friends, how many pieces of candy does he have left?
Leo has 19 pieces of candy leftover.
A picture has 2 sides that are 6 inches and 2 sides that are 10 inches. What is the perimeter of the picture?
32 inches
A gardener digs a flower bed that is 6 meters long and 5 meters wide. What is the area of the flower bed?
30 square meters
Round the number to the nearest hundred.
5,273
5,300
What is 1,000-297?
703
Patty went to the movie theatre. She bought two movie tickets for $7.35 each and a bucket of popcorn for $5.60. How much money did she spend?
$20.30
51 feet
Lisa’s square bedroom has a length of 9 feet. How much carpet will Lisa need to cover the floor of her bedroom?
36 square inches
Miss Larson’s class collected aluminum cans for recycling. They have collected 267 so far this year. About how may cans did they collect? Round to the nearest hundred.
300 cans
Sally is climbing a mountain. She climbs 786 feet in one ascent and another 492 feet in a second ascent. How far has she climbed?
She has climbed 1,278 feet.
A bottle contains 22 ounces of soda. If Joey pours 10 ounces into a cup and drinks it all and then pours 5 more ounces into a cup and drinks all of that too, how many ounces of soda are left in the bottle?
7 ounces of soda
What is the perimeter of a square that has sides 9 inches long?
36 inches
What is the area of a rectangle that has 2 sides measuring 6 inches long and the other 2 sides measuring 7 inches long?
42 square inches
There are 324 kids at the Green School and 399 kids at the Blue School. Estimate how many kids there are in total.
320 + 400 = 620 kids
There are 678 clownfish and angelfish in a tank. 425 of the fish are clownfish. How many are angelfish?
There are 253 angelfish.
Joe is learning to play the trumpet. On Monday he practiced from 6:30 until 7:05. On Tuesday he practiced from 3:55 until 4:15. How many minutes did he practice in two days??
55 minutes
Rob is a farmer. His farm is 150 meters wide and 250 meters long. He wants to install a fence all around his farm, how many meters of fence will he need to buy?
800 meters
Tom built a backyard pen for his puppy. The length of the pen was 5 meters and the width was 3 meters. What is the area of the pen?
15 square meters
Elena has 527 friends on Facebook. Gilbert had 654 friends. Estimate how many friends they have in total? (Round to the nearest ten)
1,180 friends
Dora gets $325 from her father and $289 from her mother. How much does she have now?
She has $614.
Megan is having friends over for game night. She is making mini sandwiches. If she has 4 friends coming over and she makes 3 sandwiches for each one of them, how many sandwiches will she make??
12 sandwiches
The perimeter of a postcard is 22 inches and an area of 28 inches. What are the lengths of the sides of the postcard?
7 inches x 4 inches
Mr. Smith builds a square garden box to grow tomatoes. The box has a perimeter of 20 feet. What is the area of the garden box?
25 square feet