Max Maths, Year 6, Practice, Review of rounding numbers and ordering decimals (1)

In an exercise tailored for Year 6 students, Max Maths presents a practice session on rounding numbers and ordering decimals. The first task requires students to round a series of decimal numbers to the nearest whole number. The numbers given for this activity include 15.49, 8.09, 8.51, 13.99, 15.55, and 99.99. This exercise aims to strengthen the pupils' understanding of the rounding process and its application to various decimal values.

The subsequent activity focuses on refining the skill of rounding decimals to one decimal place. Students are presented with the same set of numbers: 15.49, 8.09, 8.51, 13.79, 15.55, and 99.89, and are required to round each to a single decimal digit. The practice continues with a comparison and ordering task, where students learn to identify the greater of two decimal numbers by examining each digit from the highest to the lowest place value. For instance, when comparing 12.31 and 12.33, the exercise demonstrates that since the whole number and the tenths place are identical, the comparison moves to the hundredths place, where 1 hundredth is less than 3 hundredths, concluding that 12.31 is less than 12.33, making 12.33 the greater number.