Interactive online games help to teach rounding in engaging ways. Teachers use online rounding games for rounding practice and to enhance hand-eye coordination and memory recall. SoftSchools.com offers "Rounding," a game instructing students to round to the nearest underlined digit. Free Training Tutorial online offers two entertaining rounding activities; "Rounding Spaceships" (rounding to the nearest 10) and "Rounding Sharks" (rounding to the nearest 100). "Sea Shell Rounding" is a rounding activity teachers can use to help students practice rounding to the nearest 10. Each correct answer in this activity earns a sand dollar.
Teachers can utilize their SMART Board interactive Notebooks to teach rounding activities. SMART Exchange online offers a variety of rounding lesson activities, including, Calculator Methods: Estimation and Rounding Off (Grades 10, 11, 12), Rounding and Naming Decimals (Grades 1 and up), and Rounding to 100,000 for fourth grade. Teachers can also create SMART Notebook activities to accompany specific rounding lessons.
Teachers can separate students into rounding racing teams before writing rounding problems on the board. Using a stopwatch, the teacher times the students to see which team had the most correct questions within the fastest time. Holding daily or weekly rounding races will keep student memories sharp while promoting teamwork. Students can also play "Rounding Hangman" and "Round" bingo within the classroom. With hangman, students must state the correct rounding answer to a question given by the teacher, in order to place a letter on the board. In "Round" bingo, the teacher calls out a rounding problem and students must find that answer on their card. Bingo cards can be generated for free at various bingo generator sites online.
Rounding worksheet activities promote thinking skills and help to prepare students for tests. Worksheets can be accomplished individually or within a study group in the classroom, as worksheets allow opportunities for students to help each other work problems out successfully. SoftSchools.com provides rounding activity worksheets teachers can generate according to rows, columns and minimum and maximum numbers. Home School Math online offers a variety of free rounding worksheets to assist teachers in the classroom and within home school environments. Worksheets on the site can be generated or teachers can choose previously made worksheets. Students can round to fixed place values, whole numbers or decimals through the worksheet activities offered by Home School Math online.