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Reading Writing and Rounding Whole Numbers

Place value is used to write whole numbers with digits 0-9 in groups of thousands, millions, billions, etc. Numbers are read out without "and" between amounts in each group. Commas separate groups of three or more digits. Rounding estimates numbers by finding the closest ten, hundred, thousand etc. by increasing or keeping the underlined place value digit depending on the digit following it. Estimating involves rounding numbers before solving a problem rather than rounding the final answer.

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Reading Writing and Rounding Whole Numbers

Place value is used to write whole numbers with digits 0-9 in groups of thousands, millions, billions, etc. Numbers are read out without "and" between amounts in each group. Commas separate groups of three or more digits. Rounding estimates numbers by finding the closest ten, hundred, thousand etc. by increasing or keeping the underlined place value digit depending on the digit following it. Estimating involves rounding numbers before solving a problem rather than rounding the final answer.

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Reading and Writing Whole Numbers

We use the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and place value to write all numbers.

Place Value

Trillions Billions Millions Thousands Ones


Group Group Group Group Group
hundred trillions

ten trillions

trillions

hundred billions

ten billions

billions

hundred millions

ten millions

millions

hundred thousands

ten thousands

thousands

hundreds

tens

ones
Each group must have three place values: hundreds, tens, and ones.
*Never use the word “and” when reading or writing whole numbers. “And” is the word used to
represent a decimal.

Write the numbers in words:


68 sixty-eight Hyphens are used between two words that represent a
two-digit number.
874 eight hundred seventy-four

Commas are used to separate groups. For numbers with more than three digits, read the
number in each group, followed by the group name and a comma. The “ones” group does not
use its group name.

725,283 seven hundred twenty-five thousand, two hundred eighty-three

28,785,203
twenty-eight million, seven hundred eighty-five thousand, two hundred
three
If a number has a zero in it, do not read the zeros.
7,085 Seven thousand, eighty−five

971,006 Nine hundred seventy−one thousand, six

Write the words as numbers:


Ninety-five thousand, one hundred eleven 95,111
Three hundred six thousand, three 306,003
Rounding Whole Numbers
We use rounding to estimate; that is, we find a number “close” to the original, but easier to
work with.

To Round Whole Numbers:


Locate the place to which the number is to be rounded and underline it.
- If the number to the right of the underlined place is 5 or more, increase the underlined
number by 1.
- If the number to the right of the underlined place is 4 or less, do not change the
underlined number.
Change all digits to the right of the underlined place to 0’s.

Round to the nearest ten: 4856 4860

Round to the nearest ten-thousand: 546,325 550,000

Round to the nearest hundred: 56,961 57,000

Using Rounding to Estimate an Answer:


Estimating means round the numbers BEFORE you work the problem.
DO NOT calculate the problem, THEN round the answer.
Estimate by rounding to the nearest ten. Then find the exact answer.
Estimate: Exact:
30 27
–10 −14
20 13

Estimate by rounding to the nearest hundred. Then find the exact answer.
Estimate: Exact:
800 780
–500 −536
300 244

Front End Rounding: Round all numbers in the problem to the first digit.
Estimate using front end rounding:
3825 4000
72 70
565 600
+ 2389 +2000
6851 6670

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