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Round Table

This resource from Boxford describes the development of a table and chairs. It includes exemplar CAD files that could be used to manufacture the component parts using CNC machines. There are screenshots of the CAD layouts and pictures of the assembled product. A prototype was made using laser cut MDF to evaluate...

Rounding

This resource contains two interactive excel files which deal with rounding of discrete and continuous variables and pose problems involving practical examples of calculations using rounded values.

Rounded Numbers: Bounds The first interactive sheet shows two numbers rounded to the nearest...

Rounding

A resource containing six instant maths ideas which explore different kinds of rounding, to whole numbers, to a number of decimal places and to a number of significant figures. There are a number of resource sheets containing examples of decimals to be used with the tasks, a resource for exploring fractions,...

Rounding and Estimating

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 8A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 8.

Rounding and estimating covers: revison of the four rules for whole numbers, revision of the four rules for decimals, order of operations; BODMAS, problems in context, rounding to...

Rounding Numbers

This series of twelve interactive excel sheets explore rounding numbers. New questions can be generated each time by the click of a button. To check the answers click on the smiley face.

In the first sheet students...

Rounding numbers

Students' misconceptions when rounding to the nearest 1000 is the focus of this resource from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. It illustrates how, when asked to round a value to the nearest 1000, some students mistakenly round to the nearest 10, then the nearest 100 and finally to the nearest 1000...

Rounding Numbers N3

In this resource from the DfE Standards Unit, students work together to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1000. They make generalisations from the results obtained. Students should have some awareness of place value. (GCSE grades E-G)

Rounding: Snails Vs Rockets

This video, from Twig World, explains how we are able to measure extremes of speed, from incredibly fast to extremely slow. The degree of accuracy required when taking these measures needs to be decided. This is achieved by rounding. Examples of unhelpful rounding are given and the need for the notion of...

Route Inspection

The aim of the route inspection problem is to find a route that is as short as possible yet goes down every road once and returns to the starting point. The task informs students that there has been a heavy snowfall overnight and that the students are required to clear the roads in the town centre as quickly as...

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