Year 8 · Maths

Round Approximate Numbers Appropriately

Year 8 learners practise rounding numbers and decimal places.

The activities include Convert Between Metric and Imperial Units, Estimate By Rounding to One Significant Figure, Round a Decimal Number to 1 Decimal Place, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, teaching, worksheet, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

Convert Between Metric and Imperial Units
Estimate By Rounding to One Significant Figure
Round a Decimal Number to 1 Decimal Place
Round a Decimal Number to 2 Decimal Places

Checked learning resources

Converting metric and imperial units video

YouTube — Corbettmaths · Video · Opens on the provider website

Convert measurements between common metric and imperial units, including length, mass and capacity.
Rounding to a chosen number of decimal places video

Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

Current Year 8 lesson rounds decimal numbers to a specified number of decimal places, including one and two decimal places.
Converting metric and imperial units worked-example lesson

Corbettmaths · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

Convert measurements between common metric and imperial units, including length, mass and capacity.
Converting metric and imperial units practice

Corbettmaths · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

Convert measurements between common metric and imperial units, including length, mass and capacity.
Converting metric units for area and volume

BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

Learn about converting metric units for area and volume with this BBC Bitesize Maths article. For students between the ages of 11 and 14. KS3 Maths topic: Measurement.
Estimation and rounding

Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

Current Oak teacher unit support for Round Approximate Numbers Appropriately; selected after reading the full activity context: In this worksheet, students will learn to estimate by rounding to a given number of signific
Estimation and rounding

Oak National Academy · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

Year 8 Maths resource matched to rounding numbers and decimal places.
Rounding and estimating

BBC Bitesize · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

Year 8 Maths resource matched to rounding numbers and decimal places.