Lesson Plan
Rounding Up and Down
Give your students a head start in rounding with this fun lesson that gives them an easy trick to help them learn if they should round up or down to the nearest 10.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to retell the rule for rounding to the nearest ten. Students will be able to decide to round a number up or down to the nearest ten.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Begin the lesson by asking students to skip count by tens starting with bended knees and crouching low to the floor when they start at 0.
- Ask them to gradually stand up with each number. Use this as a demonstration of how numbers get bigger as we count forward. Explain that as we go up the numbers get higher.
- You can repeat the step in the opposite direction demonstrating that as we go down the numbers get smaller.
- Introduce the vocabulary at this time by explaining that rounding is a type of estimation that allows us to either round up to a big number or round down to a smaller number.