Rounding to decimal places or significant figures
Round numbers and measures to an appropriate degree of accuracy including to a specified number of decimal places or significant figures
Lesson
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“Rounding to decimal places or significant figures means practising the idea at the table with counters or paper models and one clear check. We will demo once, then your child tries.”
Bring to the table
- Place-value grid (ones / tenths / hundredths)
- Pencil
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Worked example. Three tenths on the grid is 0.3.
Optional challenge. For Rounding to decimal places or significant figures, add one harder example after success.
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Rounding to decimal places or significant figures means practising the idea at the table with counters or paper models and one clear check. We will demo once, then your child tries.
Materials: Place-value grid (ones / tenths / hundredths); Pencil. 1. Say the goal of Rounding to decimal places or significant figures in plain words once. 2. Adult shows 0.3 as three tenths on the grid. 3. Child builds three decimal amounts on the grid and reads them aloud. 4. Fresh check: one fresh tenths/hundredths reading. Record and stop. Done: three correct decimal readings. Proof: parent note of examples and results. Stop: End after the fresh check; keep optional challenge for another day.
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KS2 Maths
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Check understanding
- Round numbers to a given number of decimal places
- Round numbers to a given number of significant figures
- Choose an appropriate degree of accuracy for a given context
“Can your child round a measurement like 12.3746 km to 2 decimal places (12.37 km) or 3 significant figures (12.4 km) — and explain when each level of precision is appropriate?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Number Representation & Place Value
- Age range
- Ages 11–13
Standards