Hi, My Mother in Law told me of a rounding rhyme that I could use with my demo lesson and I was wondering if anyone else had any memory rhymes that go along with rounding numbers that I could use to help them remember the concept! Thanks!
Here's a cute rounding rhyme we use at my school: O-4 Hit the floor 5-9 Climb the vine We use a poster with a vine on it with the saying... We teach the kids that if the number is 0-4 the other number will hit the floor and not change, but if the number is 5-9, the other number can climb up one. Hope this helps!
I have the Rounding March at school - I will bring it home with me today. We used that last year in third grade and they loved it.
4 or less - same is best 5 or more - up the score That is the one we use, but I like the others that have been posted.
I forgot to look for the march yesterday at school - but I just found it on my key disk. I think it is from Mailbox: Rounding March - to the tune of Sound Off (or whatever it is called!) (Repeat each line after the teacher Rounding’s not that hard to do. Let me tell the rules to you. For the digits five through nine, Round that number up the line. For the digits four and less, Round that number down, oh yes! Chant twice: Round up! Five through nine! Round down! Four or less!
djmondi, that's really cute! Here's another one I found on another board called the Rounding Rap: The Rounding Rap! Find that place value and circle the digit, Move to the right and underline, get it? Zero to four - circle stays the same, Five to nine - add one is the game, Now flex your muscles like a hero, Digits to the right change to ZERO, All other digits stay the same, Yo! You're a winner in the ROUNDING GAME!
[QUOTE The Rounding Rap! Find that place value and circle the digit, Move to the right and underline, get it? Zero to four - circle stays the same, Five to nine - add one is the game, Now flex your muscles like a hero, Digits to the right change to ZERO, All other digits stay the same, Yo! You're a winner in the ROUNDING GAME![/QUOTE] I love this! I think I will review rounding tomorrow just to show the kids this!
