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🧮 3rd Grade · Math3.NBT.A.1Unit 5: Place value, rounding & adding/subtracting within 1,000

Rounding to the nearest 10

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🎯 Objective: Students round numbers to the nearest 10 using a number line.

Lesson outline

  1. Place 47 on a number line between 40 and 50.
  2. Ask which ten is closer; agree on the rule for numbers ending in 5.
  3. Round 23, 68, 85 and 134 with number lines.
  4. Exit: round 85 and 152 to the nearest ten.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

3.NBT.A.1

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Round to the nearest 10 or 100
  • Fluently add and subtract within 1,000

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Round to 10 and 100📚 All 3rd Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Place value, rounding & adding/subtracting within 1,000”

  1. Rounding to the nearest 10
  2. Rounding to the nearest 100
  3. Estimating sums and differences
  4. Adding within 1,000
  5. Subtracting within 1,000

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