Diving into Mastery Guidance for Educators

Each activity sheet is split into three sections, diving, deeper and deepest, which are
represented by the following icons:
These carefully designed activities take your
children through a learning journey, initially
ensuring they are fluent with the key concept being
Diving taught; then applying this to a range of reasoning
and problem-solving activities. 

These sheets might not necessarily be used in a

linear way. Some children might begin at the
Deeper
‘Deeper’ section and in fact, others may ‘dive
straight in’ to the ‘Deepest’ section if they have
already mastered the skill and are applying this to
show their depth of understanding.
Deepest
 Aim
• Round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to
one decimal place.
Rounding Decimals Diving

a) 7.8 8

7 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 8

b) 3.43 3
3.43

3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 4

Round the numbers to the nearest

whole number. Use the number lines
to help you.
Rounding Decimals Diving

a) 9.22 9.2

9.2 9.21 9.22 9.23 9.24 9.25 9.26 9.27 9.28 9.29 9.3

b) 6.87 6.9

6.8 6.81 6.82 6.83 6.84 6.85 6.86 6.87 6.88 6.89 6.9

Round the numbers to the nearest

tenth. Use the number lines to help
you.
Rounding Decimals Deeper

Petra is thinking of a number with tenths and hundredths.

When it is rounded to the nearest whole number, the number is 15. Rounded to
the nearest tenth it is 14.6.

Which of these could be

Petra’s number?

Petra Can you think of a different

number which could be Petra’s
14.62 15.12 number?

14.51 14.59
14.60 14.61 14.63 14.64
14.66 14.55 14.56 14.57 14.58
Rounding Decimals Deepest

Use the digits 2, 3, 4, 5,

Here are the numbers I 6, 7, 8 and 9 once only to
made: make numbers with at
least one decimal place.
When rounded to the
nearest whole number, I 46.3
round to 46.
When rounded to the
nearest tenth, I round to 7.89
7.9.
When rounded to the
nearest whole number, I 2.5 What numbers did
round to 3. you make?
Rounding Decimals

Dive in by completing your own activity!

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National Curriculum Aim
Round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest
whole number and to one decimal place.

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