Lesson Three – Rounding Thousands

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to compare a selection of different six digit numbers by rounding them to the nearest thousand using the values of their listed numerical digits.
The class can generate and record some of their own six digit numbers and then indicate how they can be rounded to the nearest thousand by examining the digits in each number.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to compare a selection of different six digit numbers by rounding them to the nearest thousand using the values of their listed numerical digits
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.
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