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Teaching Rounding So Students Actually Understand

Teachers use all sorts of tricks to teach students how to round – tricks like rollercoasters, raps, step-by-step anchor chart instructions, rhymes, underlining digits, and more. Teaching rounding using easy tricks is a short term solution, though. If you have to use tricks in order for students to understand rounding, then your students are showing you that they have some …