5 TO BEGIN
1 New Learning:
A company estimates costs as
Last lesson:
If a car travels 13.567 km, round
2 $14.365. Round to the nearest
whole, tenth, and hundredth.
the distance to the nearest
hundredth
3 current learning: GL:
4 1.
2.
Round 7.348 to the nearest tenth
Explain why rounding 5.675 to the
nearest hundredth results in 5.68
Round 4.53 to the nearest
whole number
5
5 TO BEGIN
1 New Learning:
A company estimates costs as
Last lesson:
If a car travels 13.567 km, round
2 $14.365. Round to the nearest
whole, tenth, and hundredth.
Ans: 14
14.4
the distance to the nearest
hundredth
13.57
3
14.37
current learning: GL:
4 1.
2.
Round 7.348 to the nearest tenth
Explain why rounding 5.675 to the
nearest hundredth results in 5.68
Round 4.53 to the nearest
whole number
5
5 1) 7.3
Big Question/ Real life
Keywords:
-Round
-decimal place(d.p.)
Round to 1 sf -significant figures(s.f.)
37
4 85
00 37
0 00
Look at the next number
It’s more than 4 so we round up!
Keywords:
-Round
-decimal place(d.p.)
Round to 3 sf -significant figures(s.f.)
37
4 00
37 8 0
Look at the next number
It’s less than 5 so we round down!
Keywords:
-Round
-decimal place(d.p.)
Round to 2 sf -significant figures(s.f.)
0 . 00289
9
Look at the next number
It’s more than 4 so we round up!
Topic: Estimation
Learning Objective: To estimate calculations using
significant figures
Success Criteria:
- I can identify 1st significant figure and count on.
- I can round a number greater than zero to a given number of
significant figures.
- I can round a number less than zero to a given number of
significant figures.
- I can estimate answers by rounding to significant figures.
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Keywords:
-Round
-decimal place(d.p.)
Significant Figures -significant figures(s.f.)
• When we round to significant figures, we start
counting as soon as we reach a number that is
not zero
Round 17.46789 to 2 significant figures
Points to Remember
-All the decimal numbers -
1 significant 2 significant figures, this
ignore
will stay a 7 or go to
figure a 8 depending on -Numbers in whole part
what the next become zero
number is
Round 17.46789 to 2 s.f. = 17
Keywords:
-Round
-decimal place(d.p.)
Significant Figures: Important Zeros in Numbers -significant figures(s.f.)
a. 5 2 0 0 0 Which zeros
matter?
b. 5 . 2 0 0 Are there any we
could get rid of
and still have the
same value?
c. 0 . 0 5 0
d. 0 2 . 5 0 When dealing with
Significant Figures, you need
to keep any zeros that tell us
the value of a number
Keywords:
-Round
-decimal place(d.p.)
Rounding to 1 Significant Figure (1SF) -significant figures(s.f.)
0.0765 0.0012 1.0095
5 or 5 or 5 or
Yes No more? No more?
more?
0.08 0.001 1
241 587 75
5 or 5 or 5 or
No Yes more? Yes more?
more?
200 600 80
Keywords:
-Round
-decimal place(d.p.)
Rounding to 2 Significant Figure (2SF) -significant figures(s.f.)
1472 1.4279 0.0535
5 or 5 or 5 or
Yes No more? Yes more?
more?
1500 1.4 0.054
42728 204478 0.0696
5 or 5 or 5 or
Yes No more? Yes more?
more?
43000 200000 0.070
Keywords:
-Round
-decimal place(d.p.)
Rounding to 3 Significant Figure (3SF) -significant figures(s.f.)
0.02671 3.2949 34728
5 or 5 or 5 or
No No more? No more?
more?
0.0267 3.29 34700
13798 974978 12.069
5 or 5 or 5 or
Yes Yes more? Yes more?
more?
13800 975000 12.1
Keywords:
-Round
Mid- Plenary -decimal place(d.p.)
-significant figures(s.f.)
Learning objective: To estimate calculations
using significant figures.
Assessment Criteria including WAGOLL Exemplars
Starting Approaching Meeting Exceeding
Students can Students can Students can round Students can find
round numbers round numbers to numbers to a given smallest and
to a given a given number of number of largest number
number of significant significant figures which might have
decimal places. figures. and estimate been rounded to
calculations. the given number
of s.f.
Main Task
Green (Group 3)
Main Task
Blue (Group 4)
Main Task
Purple (Group 5)
Main Task
Ans key
Challenge
LO: To round numbers to a given number of significant figures Keywords:
-Round
-decimal place(d.p.)
Plenary -significant figures(s.f.)
Q.1 Round the given numbers to (a) 1 s.f. (b) 2 s.f. (c) 3 s.f.
Answers
i. 1000 1500 1460
ii. 200 160 157
iii. 40 37 37.1
iv. 6 6.1 6.09
v. 0.006 0.0064
0.00640
2.
Q.2 a) 4.7
b) 0.058
c) 0.19
d) 540
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