RoundingTo the nearest 10
Name: Date:
Round each number to the nearest 10.
1555
2374
3875
4955
5569
6476
7522
8531
9147
10679
Rounding numbers worksheets
Rounding trades an exact number for a nearby friendly one — the skill behind every quick estimate. These free printable worksheets give a whole number and ask a child to round it to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand.
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Rounding numbers
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
One place per sheet keeps the focus clear: choose the nearest 10, 100, or 1000, and every number on the page rounds to that place, so a child practices one decision many times instead of juggling three at once. The rule is the one taught in class — look at the digit to the right of the place you are rounding to, and if it is 5 or more, round up; if it is 4 or less, round down.
Why this sheet works
The numbers are chosen so there is always real work: nothing is already sitting on the place it rounds to, and the tricky halfway cases (a 5 in the deciding spot) turn up on purpose, because knowing that 5 rounds up is the heart of the skill. Answers are exact whole numbers, so this is one of the sheets a child can also do on the practice page, not only on paper.
How this one works
One question from this sheet, worked through a step at a time.
555 to the nearest ten
555
555
555
550or560?
555
555→560
- Find the tens digit first — that is the one that might change.
- Now look at the single digit just after it: 5. Nothing further along matters at all.
- 5 is 5 or more, so 555 is nearer 560 than 550. It rounds up.
- So 555 to the nearest ten is 560.