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🧮 4th Grade · Math4.NBT.A.3Unit 1: Place value to 1,000,000

Rounding to any place

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🎯 Objective: Students round multi-digit numbers to any place using number lines and place value.

Lesson outline

  1. Round 46,728 to the nearest thousand on a number line from 46,000 to 47,000.
  2. Underline the rounding place and look at the digit to its right.
  3. Round one number to every place (ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand).
  4. Exit: round 385,512 to the nearest ten thousand.

Lesson 4 of 4 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

4.NBT.A.3

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Read, write and compare multi-digit numbers
  • Understand each place is ten times the place to its right
  • Round to any place

✅ 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: Multi-digit multiplication📚 All 4th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Place value to 1,000,000”

  1. Ten times greater
  2. Reading and writing large numbers
  3. Comparing multi-digit numbers
  4. Rounding to any place

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