---
title: "Up, Down, and All A-Round: Rounding Decimals"
description: In this lesson, students will round decimals to a given place value.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/up_down_all_a_round-001.png
---

**Subject: Math**

**Lesson Length: 30 - 40 mins**

**Topic: Numbers and Operations in Base Ten**

**Grade Level: 5**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NBT.A.4](https://learning.ccsso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Math_Standards1.pdf)

**Brief Description:**  In this lesson, students will round decimals to a given place value.

**Know Before You Start:** Students should have some experience with **rounding**. This serves as a great informal assessment to gauge student understanding.

**Hook:**

- Read and discuss the sample comic. 
    - Have you ever gone on a road trip? 
    - How many miles do you think you traveled? 
- Review rounding. Have students solve Emily’s rounding problems as a class.

**Activity:**

- Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create their own "Rounding" comics. 
- Have students choose a number with decimals to the ten thousandths place.
- The four-panel comic should include: 

**Closure:**

- Have students share their finished comics with a partner. Is their partner comic accurate?

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Adapt the lesson to use Metric measurements.

**Resources:**

- [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/qhdicdd) to print or display

**Suggested Content:**

- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1665077371444895744/thumbnail.png) Airport ](https://content.pixton.com/airport)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1665077182017544192/thumbnail.png) Shopping ](https://content.pixton.com/shopping)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1882783648000933888/thumbnail.png) Restaurant ](https://content.pixton.com/restaurant)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2000163438120759296/thumbnail.png) Mall ](https://content.pixton.com/mall)

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## Related Ideas

[![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/round_and_round_we_go-001.png)](https://ideas.pixton.com/rounding-multi-digit-numbers)

### [Rounding Multi-Digit Numbers](https://ideas.pixton.com/rounding-multi-digit-numbers)

In this lesson, students will round multi-digit numbers to any place value.

[![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/guess_my_number-001.png)](https://ideas.pixton.com/guess-my-number)

### [Guess My Number](https://ideas.pixton.com/guess-my-number)

In this lesson, students will provide clues to the location of a mystery rational number on the number line.

[![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/the_mighty_power_of_10-001.png)](https://ideas.pixton.com/the-mighty-power-of-10)

### [The Mighty Power of 10](https://ideas.pixton.com/the-mighty-power-of-10)

Students will explain the pattern of the number of zeros of the product when multiplying by powers of 10. Students will recognize that powers of 10 are represented as 10 with an exponent.