This resource is designed to help students develop their ability to round decimals to the nearest tenth, hundredth, and thousandth. The worksheets provide structured practice, including direct rounding tasks, true or false statements, and real-world applications.

How to Complete:

1. Section 1: Students will round given decimal numbers to the nearest tenth, hundredth or thousandth.
2. Section 2: Students will determine whether rounding statements are true or false.
3. Section 3: Students will answer reasoning-based questions about rounding decimals.
4. Section 4: Students will apply rounding skills to real-world contexts, such as race times, measurements, and temperatures.
5. Section 5: Students will complete rounding tables to compare how different place values affect the rounded number.

Additional Tips:

1. Teach rounding rules explicitly (5 or more, round up; 4 or less, round down).
2. Use number lines to show how rounding works visually.
3. Relate rounding to real-world examples, such as estimating costs when shopping or rounding measurements in science experiments.

Extension Ideas:

1. Rounding Challenge: Have students round a given number to multiple place values and compare results.
2. Decimals in Shopping: Use real-world prices and ask students to round them to the nearest dollar or cent.
3. Estimating with Rounding: Combine rounding with estimation by having students predict reasonable answers before rounding.

This resource is included in the Year 5 Maths Unit – Decimals: Tenths, Hundredths & Thousandths.