Lessons tagged with "nearest"

This measurement and geometry lesson focuses on telling time to the nearest quarter hour. The lesson includes research-based strategies and questions that help prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the correct time on a clock and write the hour and minutes in the spaces provided. Then, they determine if the time is a quarter past or a quarter to. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This number and operations in base ten lesson teaches students how to round numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. The focus of this lesson is to look at the two possible rounding values, then decide whether to round down or round up. This lesson uses a variety of strategies including number lines to visualize the number being rounded.