Directions:  Put each decimal in the category in which it belongs by rounding to the nearest whole number.  Does it ROUND to 49, or 50??

Mic Drop Maths is a mathematics podcast for 5th graders based on the VA Standards of Learning. Each episode addresses one standard and is broken into segments including concept, real-world application, math history, literature connections, misconceptions, and more! There is music, sound effects, jokes, and student voice in each engaging and entertaining episode. 

In Module 1, student's understandings of the patterns in the base ten system are extended from Grade 4's work with place value to include decimals to the thousandths place. In Grade 5, students deepen their knowledge through a more generalized understanding of the relationships between and among adjacent places on the place value chart, e.g., 1 tenth times any digit on the place value chart moves the digit one place value to the right. Toward the module's end, students apply these new understandings as they reason about and perform decimal operations through the hundredths place.
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This series of Google slides guides students through rounding decimal numbers to the nearest whole number on a number line. It has the students identify the two whole numbers that the decimal number would be located between. Then, the students must identify the midpoint between those two numbers. Lastly, the students will put their value on the number line and determine which whole number it is closer to. This resource concludes by having students identify the range of numbers that would round to a given whole number.

Rounding decimals to nearest whole number Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.