Whole numbers N1/L1.8

Skills, knowledge and understanding		Example
Adults should be taught to:
8 .	approximate by rounding	Round numbers to make approximate calculations.
	understand that numbers can be rounded to different degrees of accuracy, e.g. nearest 10, 100, 1000, million.	Round numbers to make approximate calculations.

Sample activities

Discuss the degree of accuracy in approximations, e.g. population figures, a sensible rounding of football attendance in the Premier League for reporting purposes in newspapers, compared with the needs of the financial departments of the clubs.
Practise approximating by using everyday examples, e.g. rounding distances of local towns to the nearest 5 or 10 miles.
Round large numbers to the nearest million, hundred thousand, ten thousand.
Set up a spreadsheet using the ROUND function for learners to practise and self-check rounding large numbers to the nearest 1000, 10,000, million, etc. (e.g. in Excel, = ROUND(A1,-6) in cell B1 automatically rounds a number in A1 to the nearest million; see Excel Help).

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