Place value - Round numbers within 100,000 - Worksheet

This worksheet from masterthecurriculum.co.uk is designed to help Year 5 students practice rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, and 10,000. It aligns with the National Curriculum objective of rounding any number up to 100,000 to these specified place values. To aid students in their learning, the worksheet provides differentiated sheets, teaching slides, and number lines. The key vocabulary terms include rounding, multiples, nearest, ones, tens, hundreds, thousand, ten thousand, round up, round down, and place value. Students will employ their understanding of multiples to identify which two numbers a given number sits between before rounding. Visual aids such as number lines are suggested to help children determine the closest multiple to their number. The worksheet also reminds learners of the rounding convention: numbers exactly halfway should be rounded up.

The worksheet encourages fluency and precision through a series of exercises. For example, when rounding the number 53,647 to the nearest 10, students are instructed to look at the tens column and then the following column to decide whether to round up or down, resulting in 53,650. Similar steps are provided for rounding to the nearest 100, 1,000, and 10,000 with clear examples given for each. Additionally, the worksheet includes reasoning and problem-solving tasks where students might encounter numbers that round to the same number when considering different place values. They are prompted to investigate such scenarios and justify their reasoning with given clues. This comprehensive approach helps deepen their understanding of place value and the practical application of rounding in various contexts.