Round It
Round 4,827 to the nearest hundred.
What is 4,800?
Actual = 4,827.
Estimate = 4,800.
Is the estimate higher or lower?
What is lower.
For the number 386, which is a reasonable estimate?
A. 400
B. 600
What is A. 400
If I round the number 4,827 = 4,800,
what place did I round to?
what is the hundreds place?
A baker expects 386 people at an event.
Would 400 cupcakes be a reasonable estimate? Why?
yes, the 8 in the tens place tells us to round up.
Round 6,349 to the nearest thousand.
What is 6,000
Actual = 6,349.
Estimate = 6,000.
Is the estimate higher or lower?
What is lower.
For the number 4,827, which is a reasonable estimate?
A. 4,800
B. 4,000
what is A. 4,800
If I round the number 6,349 = 6,000,
what place did I round to?
what is the thousands place?
A teacher expects the class to use 1,263 pencils this year.
Would 1,300 be a reasonable estimate? What place did you round to?
yes, rounded to the nearest hundred.
Round 27,651 to the nearest thousand.
What is 28,000
Actual = 7,251.
Estimate = 7,300.
Is the estimate higher or lower?
What is higher.
For the number 38,621, which is a reasonable estimate?
A. 38,000
B. 40,000
both are reasonable answers! why?
If I round the number 27,651 = 28,000,
what place did I round to?
A farmer expects to pick 4,827 pounds of apples.
Would an estimate of 4,800 or 5,000 be more useful if the farmer needs to make sure they have enough boxes? Why?
5,000 if the farmer needs enough boxes. We rounded to the nearest thousand.
Round 48,276 to the nearest thousand.
What is 50,000
Actual = 38,621.
Estimate = 40,000.
Is the estimate higher or lower?
What is higher
For the number 48,276, which estimate is more precise?
A. 48,300
B. 50,000
what is 48,300
If I round the number 48,276 = 50,000,
what place did I round to?
what is the ten-thousands place?
A store expects to sell 3,742 shirts this month.
Would you estimate 3,700 or 4,000?
Explain what you would consider before choosing.
4,000, when rounded to the nearest thousand.