Place Value
Rounding
Word Problems
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100

This is the place value of the 2 in the number 134,256.

What is the hundreds place?

100

Round the number to the nearest hundreds place: 342

300

100

What do the following keywords tell you about the operation (add, subtract, multiply, or divide)?: More than, or All together

Add

100

True or False: 24,456 + 15,132 ≈ 39,000

True

200

This is the place value of the number 4 in the number 492,853.

What is the Hundred Thousands place?

200

Round the number to the nearest hundreds place: 2,560

2,600

200

What do the following keywords tell you about the operation (add, subtract, multiply, or divide)?: Less then, the difference between

Subtract

300

This is the value of the 8 in the number 286,403.

What is 80,000?
300

Round the number to the nearest ten thousand: 96,425

100,000

300

If Johnny has 32 marbles and Sarah has 7 more than Johnny; How many marbles does Sarah have?

39

400

This is the value of the 3 in the number 235,254.

What is 30,000?

400

Round to the nearest ten thousands place: 997,423

1,000,000

400

If Pocatello has 145 days of snow this year and we had 182 of snow last year how many more days of snow did we have last year?

37 more days of snow last year.

400

Isi says Mr. Sherman's answer to 1,256 + 3,147 of 44,003 is not reasonable because, rounding the numbers we would have 1,000 + 3,000, that is only 4,000 and about 44,000 is not close enough. Is Mr Sherman right?

No, Isi is right. 

500

What is the expanded form for the number 42,306?

40,000+2,000+3,000+6=42,306

500

What place value did we round to if the rounded number is 410,000?

Ten Thousands Place

500

If Henry makes 30 cookies for his class, Ben makes 5 more cookies than Henry, and Lakendra makes 8 fewer cookies than Ben; how many cookies did Lakendra make?

Lakendra makes 27 cookies.

500

If I add 32,146 + 23,928 and get 64,237, is that reasonable? Why?

No, using rounding 32,000 + 24,000 is 56,000 so 64,000 is not reasonable.