INQUIRY WORKSHEET (PUPIL) – ANSWER

ROUNDING OFF NUMBERS UP TO THE NEAREST HUNDRED THOUSAND

Inquiry Prompt (5 minutes)

There are 11 buildings along Mountain Inquiry. The house number for the first house is
“220”, then followed by “221” for the second building and the number goes on until
building with house number “230”. The buildings with house number “220” and “230”
are Samarindah Clinic and Muara Tuang Clinic respectively. Adeeb lives in building
“226”. Which clinic do you think he will visit if he falls sick? Why?

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Task 1 (10 minutes)

A cyclist is riding a bike and stop at 26 374. He will slide down to 26 000 or 27 000. Use
the rounding mountain to solve this question.

Rounding mountain:
:

A. Place 26 000 and 27 000 in box A and box B.

B. Write 26 000 and 27 000 in words.

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C. What is the last word in B?

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D. What is the digit that represent the answer in C for 926 374?

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E. What is the first digit to the right for D answer?

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F. Allocate the E answer at the rounding mountain in A. Circle the digit.

G. F answer is sliding down to box A or box B? What is the number in box A?

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Task 2 (20 minutes)

By using the rounding mountain,
A. round off 54 567 to the nearest hundred.

B. round off 64 325 to the nearest ten.

C. round off 15 612 to the nearest ten thousand.

D. round off 27 453 to the nearest thousand.

Task 3: (10 minutes)
A. Discuss in group Use another method which is different from rounding mountain or
similar to rounding mountain method to solve the questions below:E.g number line.

No. Question Solution

1 Round off 65 847 to the nearest
thousand.

2 Round off 482 421 to the nearest

ten thousand.

B.How you apply round off numbers to the nearest certain place value in daily life? Give an
example.

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Task 4: (15 minutes)
Roll the dice given to you for five times to get 5 numbers. Arrange the 5 number to form
any five 5-digit numbers. Fill the five 5-digit numbers in the “Number” column below and
solve the questions.

No. Number Round off to the Answer

nearest………..

1 ten

2 thousand

3 ten thousand

4 hundred thousand

5 hundred