Round to the Nearest 1,000 Year 4 Place Value Learning Video Clip
Step 11: Round to the Nearest 1,000 Year 4 Place Value Learning Video Clip
Fabio is selling ice creams to tourists visiting the Roman Forum. He is looking at the best places to sell ice cream within the forum and how much money he has made, he needs to use his knowledge of rounding to 1,000 to help him.
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Discussion points for teachers
- What are the largest and smallest numbers of ice creams he could have sold? Discuss which values in a 4-digit number round up and round down.
- What amounts does Fabio need to tell the bank? Discuss what each value represents, and whether to round up or down.
- Round the values to the nearest thousand to help Fabio work out where to position his ice cream cart. Discuss what each value represents and use of unconventional partitioning, discuss which digit to look at to decide whether to round up or down.
- How many ice creams could Fabio have sold? Discuss what the greatest and smallest value could be, discuss how many different possible answers there could be. This question is open-ended for children to explore.
National Curriculum Objectives
Mathematics Year 4: (4N4b) Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000
Mathematics Year 4: (4N3a) Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones)
Mathematics Year 4: (4N6) Solve number and practical problems that involve 4N1 - 4N5 and with increasingly large positive numbers
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