Lesson Four – Number Changes

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to round a range of different six digit numbers to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand by the place values of their numerical digits.
The class can identify and describe how the digits in a number can change their place value when the number has been rounded to the nearest ten, hundred or thousand.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to round a range of different six digit numbers to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand by the place values of their numerical digits
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets to record how to round selected different six digit numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand and hundred thousand for core and extension ability levels and to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand for support ability levels.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to round a range of different six digit numbers to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to practise comparing and rounding numbers to six digits to their nearest ten, hundred and thousand by utilising the place value of their digits. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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