27 is between 20 and 30
Rounding is two questions, and most mistakes are in the first: which two tens is the number between? Find the slices of bread on either side, and deciding which is nearer is easy.
Find the tens on either side, then pick the nearer.
A rounding worksheet generator, printable as a PDF. Each number sits like a filling between two empty boxes, for the ten just before it and the ten just after — 20 · 27 · 30. Pick tens, with two-digit numbers, or hundreds, with three-digit numbers, and choose whether the child only writes the neighbors or rounds as well, with a third box for the nearer one. Halfway rounds up, the way it is taught, and a few halfway numbers — 45, 650 — are always on a rounding page because they are the ones that need practice. No number is already a ten, and every page is new, with an answer key.
1 token a sheet, fewer in batches.
US Letter PDF — prints on any home printer.
Before
The ten just before the number: 27 is after 20.
After
The ten just after it: 27 is before 30.
Round
Which is nearer? 27 is 3 from 30 and 7 from 20, so it rounds to 30.
Between
The child
Rounding adds a box for the nearer neighbor. Halfway rounds up — 25 rounds to 30 — and some halfway numbers are always on the page.
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