When you do not need to speak or write about exact quantities or measures, learning to round numbers to 10, 100 or 1,000 can be useful. It can make calculations easier and it also helps when you are ...

Scientific American presentsMath Dudeby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. In the last Math Dude episode, we learned the ins and outs of ...

"Rounding is my rock!" In this day and age, it takes creativity to keep the attention of children, and with the help of music, it's happening at one elementary school. Inspired my rapper Plies' "Rock" ...

Scientific American presentsMath Dudeby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. At some point in your life, you were most likely taught how to ...

Use place value cards to practice rounding numbers to the nearest ten and hundred. Warm up with a Mystery Math Mistake to hunt for the mistake made counting up on the number line. Use place value ...

A GCSE Maths video about how and why we round numbers to significant figures. Significant figures start at the first non-zero number.

For statistical and mathematical purposes, OpenOffice.org's Calc spreadsheet includes a variety of ways to round off numbers. If you're a programmer, you may also be familiar with some of these ...