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Feeding Frenzy (Rounding Game)

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  This learning activity provided by:  
Author: Samantha Wallace
System:Limestone County
School:Cedar Hill Elementary School
  General Activity Information  
Activity ID: 2746
Title:
Feeding Frenzy (Rounding Game)
Digital Tool/Resource:
Feeding Frenzy Rounding Sort
Web Address – URL:
Overview:

This activity is a sorting game where students have to match multi-digit numbers to the appropriately rounded number.  Students must be able to round multi-digit numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand.  There is a recording sheet to track student progress.
  Associated Standards and Objectives  
Content Standard(s):
Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 4
9. Round multi-digit whole numbers to any place using place value understanding.
Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • When given any multi-digit whole number, use place value understanding to round to any place.
  • When given a number which is rounded to a place value, identify an unknown number that rounds to that given number.

    • Example: What are all possible numbers that result in 460 when rounded to the nearest ten? Answer: 455, 456, 457, 458, 459, 460, 461, 462, 463, 464.
  • Use rounding in a variety of situations, to include estimating, problem solving, and determining reasonableness of answers.
Note: Expectations are limited to whole numbers less than or equal to 1,000,000.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Round
  • Place value
  • Ones
  • Tens
  • Hundreds
  • Thousands
  • Ten thousands
  • Approximately
  • Halfway point
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • The relationship among positions of digits in a number and place value. They can use that knowledge to round numbers to nay place.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Use place value strategies to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • rounding multi-digit numbers is an estimation strategy used when writing the original number as the closest multiple of a power of 10.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Essential Skills:
Learning Objectives:
M.4.9.1: Add and subtract within 1000.
M.4.9.2: Apply signs +, -, and = to actions of joining and separating sets.
M.4.9.3: Add and subtract single-digit numbers.
M.4.9.4: Recall basic addition and subtraction facts.

Prior Knowledge Skills:
  • Define the commutative and associative properties of addition and subtraction.
  • Subtract within 100 using strategies and algorithms based on the relationship between addition and subtraction.
  • Subtract within 100 using strategies and algorithms based on properties of operations.
  • Subtract within 100 using strategies and algorithms based on place value.
  • Add within 100 using strategies and algorithms based on the relationship between addition and subtraction. Add within 100 using strategies and algorithms based on properties of operations.
  • Add within 100 using strategies and algorithms based on place value.
  • Recall basic addition and subtraction facts.
  • Define regrouping, total, sum, difference and solve.
  • Add and subtract two two-digit numbers with and without regrouping.
  • Determine the value of the number in the ones, tens, hundreds and thousands place using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value.
  • Match the number in the ones, tens, hundreds and thousands position to a pictorial representation or manipulative of the value.
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
M.AAS.4.9 Round a whole number from 1 to 49 to the nearest ten (using a number line and hundreds chart.)
Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to round multi-digit numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand.
  Strategies, Preparations and Variations  
Phase:
After/Explain/Elaborate
Activity:

The students can play the sorting game individually, with a partner, or in small groups.

The students must match the numbers on the fish to the appropriately rounded numbers on the sharks.  They should round the 2-digit numbers to the nearest ten, the 3-digit numbers to the nearest hundred, and the 4-digit to the nearest thousand.  Students can be provided with blank number lines as support if needed.

After students have "fed" the sharks by matching them with fish, they should record their answers on the recording sheet.
Assessment Strategies:

Check student work on the recording sheet to check for accuracy when rounding o the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand.
Advanced Preparation:

  • Print and cut apart the sharks and fish for the sorting game

  • Print and make copies of the recording sheet for each student
Variation Tips (optional):

You can use only the 2-, 3-, or 4-digit shark/fish to make the game easier or more challenging as needed.
Notes or Recommendations (optional):

This activity can be used as a stand-alone activity or together with the following activities as a complete lesson:

Guess the Tickets (Rounding Task) (before)

Show me the Benchmark (Rounding Lesson) (during)
  Keywords and Search Tags  
Keywords and Search Tags: benchmark, estimate, hundreds, number line, place value, rounding, tens, thousands