Rounding Rules
Rounding
Place Value
Vocabulary
Expanded Form
100

What is Step 1 when rounding any number?

Underline the number in the place value you are being asked to round to.

100
Round 4,539 to the tens. 

4,540

100

What is the value of the number 9 in the number 739

9

100

The numerical value that a digit has by its position in a number.

Place Value

100

What is 800+6 written in standard form?

806

200

What is Step 2 when rounding any number?

Circle the number that is directly to the right of the number you underlined.

200

Round 45,265 to the nearest hundred.

45,300

200

What is the value of the 5 in the number 13,250?

50

200

A way to break up a number to show how much each digit in the number represents.

Expanded Form

200

What is 1,536 written in expanded form?

1000+500+30+6

300

What do you do if the circled number is 5,6,7,8, or 9?

Round up

300

Round 12,456 to the nearest thousand.

12,000

300

What is the value of the 7 in the number 13,751?

700

300

Making a number simpler but keeping its value close to what it was.

Rounding

300

What is 20,000+300+8 written in standard form?

20,308

400

What do you do if the circled number is 0,1,2,3 or 4?

Round down

400

Round 9,999 to the nearest thousand. 

10,000

400

What is the value of the 8 in the number 180,956?

80,000

400

A tool or drawing used to determine if you should round up or down. 

Mountain Man

400

Write 13,006 in expanded form.

10,000+3,000+6

500

What does the circled number tells us when rounding?

Rather to round up or down the underlined number

500

Round 920,347 to the nearest million.

1,000,000

500

What is the value of the number 3 in the number 3,967,784

3,000,000

500

Explain standard form.

A way of writing down very large or very small numbers easily.

500

What is 9,147,009 written in standard form?

9,000,000+100,000+40,000+7,000+9