Rounding Decimals Teaching Resources
Are you teaching rounding decimals this school year? Explore printable worksheets, games and hands-on activities to teach students how to round decimals to the nearest tenth and how to round a variety of decimal places!
Aligned with the Australian maths curriculumss, each teacher resource in this collection has been created by a teacher on our teacher team. Best of all? Each resource has undergone a careful review by a maths teacher on our team to ensure it's ready for your decimal lesson plans and your students.
Explore differentiated and editable versions of some of our most popular resources.
Are you new to teaching students how to round decimals? Take a look at this primer from our teacher team!
Teaching How to Round Decimals
Rounding decimals makes numbers easier to work with and understand, and learning how to round decimals is an important part of maths education in upper years classrooms. In particular, teaching this skill will prepare students for working with measurements and financial calculations.
But how do you teach it?
Teach the Rounding Rules
Rounding a number to the nearest whole, tenth or hundredth can be done following a series of different rounding rules.
1. Rounding to the Nearest Tenth
When we're rounding decimals to one decimal place, we're also rounding to the nearest tenth. It's done according to the following rule:
- 5 or more, round up; 4 or less, round down
This rule tells us that if the digit to the right of the tenths place (the digit in the hundredths place) is 5 or higher, we should round up. If it's 4 or less, we round down.
For example, let's take the number 2.17 and round to one decimal place.
Because the number 7 is higher than 5, this would be rounded to 2.2.
2. Rounding to 2 Decimal Places
Also known as rounding to the nearest hundredth, rounding to 2 decimal places requires us to use the same '5 or More, Round Up; 4 or Less, Round Down' rule.
The only difference? This time, students will look to the digit to the right of the hundredths place — the number in the thousandths place — to determine if they should round up or down.
For example, if the number is 3.456, to round to the nearest hundredth, the student would round up to 3.46.
3. Rounding Decimals to the Nearest Whole Number
If your students have a number in decimal form and the goal is to produce a whole number, they can also use the '5 or More, Round Up; 4 or Less, Round Down' rule.
This time, the digit that they are evaluating is the digit in the tenths place! If it is 5 or higher, the whole number should be rounded up. If it's 4 or less, the whole number should be rounded down.
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Decimal Exit Tickets (Place Value, Rounding, Ordering and Computation)
Assess student understanding of decimal place value, rounding, ordering and computation with this set of 21 exit tickets.
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Rounding Decimals Worksheet
Encourage your students to round decimals to the nearest tenths and hundredths place with this worksheet.
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Rounding Decimals Number Search Worksheets
Encourage your students to practise rounding decimals to the nearest whole number, tenth and hundredth with this set of number search worksheets.
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Rounding Decimals Worksheet Set
Practise rounding numbers to the nearest whole, tenth, hundredth and thousandth with this worksheet set.
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Rounding Decimals Mystery Picture Worksheet
Round decimals to the nearest whole, tenth, hundredth and thousandth while revealing a mystery image with a fun colour-by-number worksheet.
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Rounding Decimals on a Number Line Worksheet Pack
Teach your students how to determine missing numbers on a number line and use it to round decimals to the nearest whole number, tenth and hundredth.
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Rounding Decimals – I Have, Who Has? Game
Review with your students how to round decimals with an exciting I Have, Who Has? game!
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Rounding Decimals Bump! Game
Review how to round decimals with this set of printable year 5 maths games.
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Rounding Numbers With Decimals Teaching Slides and Worksheet
Teach your students how to round to the nearest whole number, tenth and hundredth with this set of teaching slides and accompanying worksheet.
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Race Car Rounding With Decimals Interactive Activity
Rev up your maths engines and take the rounding decimals race! Download this interactive activity and challenge your students to become a decimal rounding champion!
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Rounding Decimals – Differentiated Colour by Code Worksheet
Guide your students to round decimals to the nearest tenth and hundredth with this differentiated colour-by-code worksheet.
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Rounding Decimals Board Game
Practise rounding decimals to the nearest tenth and hundredth with this printable maths game.
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Rounding Decimals With Visual Models – Task Cards
Use these task cards to round decimals to the nearest tenth or hundredth and match each value with a corresponding decimal model.
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Halloween Rounding Decimals Worksheets
Have fun rounding decimals to the tenths and hundredths place with our Halloween Riddle worksheets!
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Decimal Designs – Differentiated Decimal Rounding Worksheet
Guide your students to round decimals to different places and create a beautiful design with this differentiated worksheet.
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Rounding Decimals Bingo
Review how to round decimals to the nearest whole, tenth and hundredth with a whole-class bingo game.
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It's a Match! – Rounding With Decimals Puzzle
Practise rounding decimals up to the thousandths place with 34 puzzle pair matching pieces.
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Rounding Decimals – Task Cards
Round decimals to the nearest hundredth with this set of 24 task cards.