1. Rounding Decimals

2. Step 1: Identify the place you are rounding to, and place a circle around it. Rounding Decimals

3. Step 2: Underline the number to the right of the circled decimal place Rounding Decimals

4. Step 3: If underlined digit is greater than or equal to 5, then round the circled number up (add one) 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Rounding Rounding Decimals +1

5. Step 4: If underlined digit is less than or equal to 4, leave the circled number the same 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Rounding Decimals =

6. Remember  Keep everything before the circle. Everything after the circle becomes zero. If the zeroes come at the end of a decimal, they can be dropped

7. Try these: 1)Round 1.05 to the nearest tenth 2) Round 0.123 to the nearest tenth Rounding Decimals

8. Answers: 1) 1.1 2) 0.12 Rounding Decimals

9. Describe what you learned today about either reading OR rounding decimals. In your Own Words

10. Describe what you learned today about either reading OR rounding decimals. In your Own Words