Rounding Rounding - Read all about it!

Another busy morning of maths

In Ganges class we know that maths isn't just something we do in school, it is all around us in our everyday lives. So what better way to think about rounding numbers than to spend some time browsing through the newspaper in a maths lesson! Some of us used' First News' , the child friendly newspaper, to find headlines and articles with numbers in them. We then used those numbers to make a poster where we rounded those very numbers to the nearest 100. 

Here's the rounding part

 Other members of the class needed to work on two digit addition problems before they then rounded the answer to the nearest ten. The main thing is to remember that for 1,2,3 and 4 you round down and for 5,6,7,8 and 9 you round up. 

Calculating before rounding

 As you can see we use lots of resources in maths which is fun. You would be amazed at how quickly we can get everything tidied up when it is time to go out to the playground!

Time for Fishy to tidy up!