Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to select different ways of rounding six digit numbers to the nearest thousand, ten thousand or hundred thousand and a template to record how they have rounded six digit numbers to the nearest thousands.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compare a selection of different six digit numbers by rounding them to the nearest thousand using the values of their numerical digits.

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.