The purpose of this task is for students to use the position of a number on the number line to round the number without knowing its exact value. Though this task deals most directly with rounding, it also requires students to understand or figure out that one tenth of 0.1 is 0.01. Aligns with 5.NBT.A.4.

Concepts

decimals, hundredths, place value, rounding decimals, tenths

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Additional Tags

base ten, round decimals, 5.nbt.a.4, cc by-nc-sa 4.0, creative commons attribution-noncommercial-sharealike 4.0, creative commons, illustrative mathematics

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 1 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice

Common Core

5.NBT.A.4 4.NBT.A.3