My favorite ways how to teach rounding to 3rd graders
I remember the first time I sat down to figure out how to teach rounding to 3rd graders without everyone—myself included—ending up in tears. It is one of those math concepts that feels totally intuitive to adults but can feel incredibly abstract to an eight-year-old. We use rounding every day when we're grocery shopping or checking the time, but for a kid, it can feel like you're just "changing the numbers for no reason." ...