Rounding to the nearest 1,000

Difficulty Stretch · Set o8qwyv

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Round 717987 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 988370 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 510394 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 258942 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 557845 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 140568 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 707140 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 944755 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 329046 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 878430 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 630598 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 585900 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 596822 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 911808 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 911494 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 252986 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 968363 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 532719 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 743399 to the nearest thousand.
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Round 618722 to the nearest thousand.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 103,114 to 998,400.
52% of them round down.
48% of them round up.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 52% of the problems: the number of thousands was written instead of the rounded number itself.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 240 different ones, 100% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 4 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.