Cloze - Rounding Numbers

When creating a cloze exercise leave the first sentence complete. Omit a variety of words - some grammatical words (such as 'the') and some content words. The students should be able to work out the omitted words from reading the text itself. 

Rules for Rounding

Copy the following information into your books.
Fill in the blanks where you can.
Use the words in the text to work out the missing words.

We often use rounded numbers because they are good enough for our purposes. Rounded numbers are approximate ____________.

Rounding to ______ nearest ten

When rounding to the _______ ten, look at the digit in the one's place . 	
Numbers ending in 5 or more  are rounded to the nearest ___ above. 	Numbers _______ in 4 or less  are rounded to the nearest ten below. 	
		
____________ to the nearest hundred

When rounding to the nearest ________, look at the digit in the ten's place .

Numbers having 5 or _____ in the ten's place  are rounded to the nearest hundred above. 	Numbers _______ 4  or less  in the ten's place  are rounded to the nearest hundred _______. 	
		
Rounding to the nearest ____________

When rounding to the nearest thousand, look at the _______ in the _________ place and round up or down.   	
•  See if you can complete the rule for thousands by looking at the previous rules. 	
Created by Pip Arnold