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Rounding numbers...with pizza!

Rounding numbers...with pizza!

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Mathematics

3rd Grade

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Medium

CCSS
3.NBT.A.1, 4.NBT.A.3

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Created by

Jessica Jenkins

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4 Slides • 6 Questions

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Rounding Numbers....

with pizza!!

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Which type of pizza would you choose?

Cheese

Pepperoni

Supreme

Ew. Pizza is gross.

3

Did you know that Americans eat 100 acres of pizza each day, or 350 slices per second????

  • Which pizza place do you think has the most restaurants?   

4

Multiple Choice

If you guessed Pizza Hut, you would be correct! They have 18,703 restaurants across the world. What is this number rounded to the nearest thousand?

1

18,000

2

19,000

3

20,000

4

10,000

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A few more fun pizza facts while we're on the subject...  :)

  • 2 million pizzas are sold from Pizza Hut during the Superbowl.

  • The first pizza was invented in Naples in the 1500s.

  • The most expensive pizza in the world costs 8,300 euros in Italy, which is about $12,000 here in America.

  • Popular toppings for pizza in Japan are mayonnaise and squid! 

  • The world record for the largest pizza is 122 feet wide!!

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Let's take some of the numbers from those fun facts and round them!

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Multiple Choice

What is 122 rounded to the nearest ten?

1

100

2

120

3

130

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Multiple Choice

What is 122 rounded to the nearest hundred?

1

100

2

120

3

200

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Multiple Choice

What is 8,300 rounded to the nearest thousand?

1

8,000

2

9,000

3

8,300

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Multiple Choice

And finally, what is 54,499 rounded to the nearest ten thousand?

1

40,000

2

50,000

3

60,000

4

54,400

Rounding Numbers....

with pizza!!

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