Purpose:
To help your child to learn to round to the nearest tenth.
What you need:
- Supermarket receipt
- Pen and paper
- Calculator
What to do:
Give your child a supermarket shopping receipt and look at the prices together.
Choose some items from the receipt for your child to round to the nearest tenth.
| Item | Receipt | Rounding |
| Bananas | $2.79 | $2.80 |
| Bread Rolls | $5.58 | $5.60 |
| Kumara | $3.81 | $3.80 |
| Taro | $6.74 | $6.70 |
Write down the prices rounded to the nearest ten cents
Use a calculator to add up receipt prices and then the rounded prices.
What to expect your child to do:
To round numbers to the nearest tenth.
Variation:
Try rounding up every items on a shopping receipt and then adding up the total using a calculator.
He Kupu Māori:
| dollar | tāra |
| cent | hēneti |
| round (a number) | whakaawhiwhi (-a) |
| rounded price | utu whakaawhiwhi |
| receipt | rīhiti |
| supermarket | hokomaha |
He Whakawhitinga Kōrero:
- Anei te rīhiti mai i te hokomaha. Me tirotiro e tāua. (Here’s the receipt from the supermarket. Let’s have a look at it.)
- Whakaawhiwhia ngā utu ki te tekau hēneti e pātata ana. (Round the prices to the closest 10 cents.)
- Tuhia ngā utu whakaawhiwhi. (Write down the rounded prices.)
- Tāpirihia ngā utu whakaawhiwhi. (Add up the rounded prices.)
- Pēhea nei te pātata o te tapeke whakaawhiwhi ki te tapeke i utua. (How close is the rounded total to the total that was paid?)
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