This resource includes 15 interactive Google Slides with movable pieces and video instructions for students. Students will understand the meaning of rounding numbers by finding the tens a number is between and representing that number on a number line. This resource can be easily assigned in Google Classroom for math stations, independent practice or distance learning.

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You do not need Google Classroom to use this resource, but you do need a Google e-mail to use Google Slides.

What's Included?

• PDF with a Link to make a copy of the Google Slides in your Google Drive
• Video Instructions (Student devices must be able to access You-Tube)
• Example Slide to further clarify instructions for students
• 15 interactive slides with movable pieces
• Key that is created in Google Slides so that it can be shared with all or select students via Google Classroom to make this a self-checking activity

Topics include:

• Determining the tens a number is between
• Determining the "halfway point" between those tens
• Representing the number on a number line to help make rounding decisions
• Rounding the number to the nearest ten
• Students will round 2-digit, 3-digit, and 4-digit numbers to the nearest ten

Ideas on how to use this resource:

• Use it as a whole class (in person) teaching tool by projecting the slides and using the movable, interactive pieces to teach your lesson.
• Use it for whole class Zoom meetings as a teaching tool.
• Assign this resource as a lesson for student practice in Google Classroom.
• Have students create a video (using software such as Screencastify) explaining how they solved one problem.
• Share the digital key with students in Google Classroom for parents and students to check work at home.

TEKS Alignment:

3.2C: Represent a number on a number line as being between two consecutive multiples of 10; 100; 1,000; or 10,000 and use words to describe relative size of numbers in order to round whole numbers.

4.2D: Round whole numbers to a given place value through the hundred thousand place.

Common Core Alignment:

3.NBT.A.1: Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

4.NBT.A.3: Use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.