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Friday, 24 October 2014

Rounding and Compensating

This week in maths,we are learning to round and compensate numbers.  Rounding and compensating numbers is hard and easy.  For example, 45 + 28 = ? you have to plus 2 to 28 so you 30 because the nearest number to 28 is 30.  45 +30 = 75.  Then you have to take away 2 from 75 so its 75 - 2 = 73.  I need to learn this because if something like this pops up in college, I can remember what I did in primary school.  This is the worksheet we were learning how to round and compensate numbers: