Rounding to the nearest 100 3 rd Grade Kids Academy

welcome to kids academy if you want to round number to the nearest hundred you actually have to look at the tens place to help you to decide whether to round up or round down like to underline the place i'm rounding to the hundredths place and draw an arrow to the place that will tell me whether to round up or round down the tens place you always look one place to the right of the place that you want to round to so in this case we're rounding to the nearest hundred so we'll have to look at the place to the right of the hundreds which is the tens the same rule applies when rounding to the hundreds place as it does when we round to the tens five is the key number if it's five or higher you round up four or lower you round down you round the number in the hundreds place and make the numbers in the ones and the tens places zeros let's take look at real life situation that requires rounding and see how our rounding to the nearest hundred skills can come in handy this park ranger wants to record how many people visited these national landmarks by rounding up to the nearest hundred let's help her by rounding first we'll check out mount rushmore one of my favorite landmarks according to the data 175 people have visited mount rushmore now let's round that number to the nearest hundred we'll use the strategy of underlining the hundreds place and drawing an arrow to the tenths place so we know what numbers we have to look at see seven in the tens place know if it's five or higher we have to round up the one in the hundreds place is underlined so we'll have to round the one hundred up to two hundred when rounding to the hundreds place the numbers in the tens and ones places become zeros i'll leave you with challenge want you to help the ranger round the next two landmarks visitors to the nearest hundred i'll give you some time to think but if you need more time you can pause the video and answer when you're ready okay here's the answer old faithful saw 871 visitors so we'll use the strategy of underlining the hundreds place and drawing an arrow to the tenths place so we know what numbers we have to look at see seven in the tens place know if it's five or higher we have to round up the eight in the hundredths place is underlined so we have to round up the eight hundred to nine hundred when rounding to the hundreds place the numbers in the tens place and ones place become zeros the grand canyon so 963 visitors will use the strategy of underlining the hundreds place and drawing an arrow to the tens place again see six in the tens place know if it's five or higher we have to round up the nine in the hundreds place is underlined so we have to round up the nine hundred to one thousand because after nine hundred we have to change to thousands when rounding to the hundreds place and we have to round up to thousands the numbers in the hundreds tens and ones place become zeros remember to look at the place to the right of the place you want to round to and round up if you see 5 or higher thanks for watching boys and girls see you next time subscribe to our channel to stay updated on new videos find links to our apps in the comments below