Match the octopuses’ legs to their bodies in this interactive, hands-on rounding puzzle!

Each octopus's body matches eight legs. Students round the number on each leg to the nearest hundred to find its matching body.

For an added challenge, you could turn all the legs face down and assign each student or group one octopus body. Students take turns flipping over a leg; if it rounds to their number, they keep it; if not, they turn it back over. The first team to collect all eight legs wins!

You can use this activity as an independent or small group workstation task. Perfect for fast finishers!

Print on thick A4 cardstock for easy reuse. Colour and black & white printable options are available. You might like to print the black & white version on different coloured cards for support students to help with visualising their matches.

We’ve also included a blank octopus template in black and white which you can use to create your own puzzles or as a base for a craftivity!

Want something simpler? Try Rounding Octopus Puzzle: Tens!