What this lesson shows
16.32 between 16.3 and 16.4, with 16.35 in the middle: 16.3 to the nearest tenth.
The worked example
The lesson works this one step by step: 16.32 to the nearest tenth. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.
The steps
- Name the two neighbors
- Find halfway
- Closer to which?
Helping at home
To round, name the two neighbors in the place you round to, find the halfway mark between them, and see which side the number falls on.
If your kid gets stuck
What are the two neighbors, and what is halfway?
Watch it with Lux
With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.
Standards
- Common Core 5.NBT.A.4
Use place value understanding to round decimals to any place.
Matches standards in 46 statesSee each state's code
- Alabama MA19.5.5
- Alaska 5.NBT.4
- Arizona 5.NBT.A.4
- Arkansas 5.NPV.4
- California 5.NBT.A.4
- Colorado 5.NBT.A.4
- Connecticut 5.NBT.A.4
- Delaware 5.NBT.A.4
- District of Columbia 5.NBT.A.4
- Florida MA.5.NSO.1.5
- Georgia 5.NR.4.3
- Hawaii 5.NBT.A.4
- Idaho 5.NBT.A.4
- Illinois 5.NBT.A.4
- Iowa 5.NBT.A.4
- Kansas 5.NBT.4
- Kentucky KY.5.NBT.4
- Louisiana 5.NBT.A.4
- Maine 5.NBT.A.4
- Maryland 5.NOS.A.3.b, 5.NOS.B.6.a
- Massachusetts 5.NBT.A.4
- Michigan 5.NBT.A.4
- Minnesota 4.1.2.7, 5.1.2.5
- Mississippi 5.NBT.4
- Missouri 5.NBT.A.5
- Montana MT.5.NBT.4, 5.D1.2
- Nevada 5.NBT.A.4
- New Hampshire 5.NBT.A.4
- New Jersey 5.NBT.A.4
- New Mexico 5.NBT.A.4
- New York NY-5.NBT.4
- North Dakota 5.NO.NBT.3
- Ohio 5.NBT.4
- Oregon 5.NBT.A.4
- Pennsylvania CC.2.1.5.B.1
- Rhode Island 5.NBT.A.4
- South Carolina 5.NR.1.3
- South Dakota 5.NBT.A.4
- Tennessee 5.NBT.A.4
- Texas 111.7.b.2.C
- Utah 5.NBT.4
- Vermont 5.NBT.A.4
- Virginia 5.CE.3a
- Washington 5.NBT.A.4
- West Virginia M.5.7
- Wisconsin M.5.NBT.A.4