Can numbers help tell stories?

Pre-project activity

Dividing and rounding numbers

The following activity is optional and will provide children with the basics of dividing and rounding numbers.

Pupils practise dividing numbers by 2 and 4 and then rounding to the nearest whole number. 

Throughout the rest of this element, pupils will be estimating the number of infected people and will need to round to a whole number.  

Pupils can practise this with the questions on the slides below.

We'd suggest asking pupils to spend a couple of minutes on each question before moving on to the next. 

Go through some of the answers and talk about rounding each non-integer number up to the nearest whole number

Q: Which numbers are trickiest to halve and quarter?

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