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Round decimals: 5th grade math

Round decimals. A free 5th grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: round decimals.

Teach (10 min)

  • Add zeros so both have the same number of places.
  • Round by looking at the next digit: 5 or more rounds up.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/numsense.g5_decCmp?lesson=5-numsense-deccmp-1&at=5

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. Pick the true one: 0.427 is ______ 0.428.
  • 2. Pick the true one: 0.479 is ______ 0.489.
  • 3. Pick the true one: 0.757 is ______ 0.847.

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. Pick the true one: 0.427 is ______ 0.428.
  2. Pick the true one: 0.479 is ______ 0.489.
  3. Pick the true one: 0.757 is ______ 0.847.
  4. Pick the true one: 0.698 is ______ 0.699.
  5. Pick the true one: 0.713 is ______ 0.712.
  6. Pick the true one: 0.172 is ______ 0.172.
  7. Pick the true one: 0.597 is ______ 0.687.
  8. Pick the true one: 0.731 is ______ 0.731.
  9. Pick the true one: 6.931 is ______ 6.932.
  10. Pick the true one: 7.917 is ______ 7.918.
Answers
  1. less than
  2. less than
  3. less than
  4. less than
  5. greater than
  6. equal to
  7. less than
  8. equal to
  9. less than
  10. less than

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Round decimals (5th grade)

  1. Pick the true one: 0.974 is ______ 0.974.
  2. Pick the true one: 0.196 is ______ 0.197.
  3. Pick the true one: 0.745 is ______ 0.736.
  4. Pick the true one: 0.597 is ______ 0.607.
  5. Pick the true one: 0.935 is ______ 0.926.
  6. Pick the true one: 4.949 is ______ 4.950.
  7. Pick the true one: 7.221 is ______ 7.225.
  8. Round 4.613 to the nearest hundredth.
  9. Pick the true one: 1.286 is ______ 1.286.
  10. Pick the true one: 2.700 is ______ 2.700.
  11. Pick the true one: 1.256 is ______ 1.257.
  12. Round 5.738 to the nearest tenth.
Key
  1. equal to
  2. less than
  3. greater than
  4. less than
  5. greater than
  6. less than
  7. less than
  8. 4.61
  9. equal to
  10. equal to
  11. less than
  12. 5.7

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