Scientific American presentsMath Dudeby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. In the last Math Dude episode, we learned the ins and outs of ...

When you do not need to speak or write about exact quantities or measures, learning to round numbers to 10, 100 or 1,000 can be useful. It can make calculations easier and it also helps when you are ...

Scientific American presentsMath Dudeby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. At some point in your life, you were most likely taught how to ...

When it’s not necessary to give an exact value, numbers can be rounded. Rounding means making a number simpler but keeping its value close to what it is. When rounding numbers the result is less ...

Use place value cards to practice rounding numbers to the nearest ten and hundred. Warm up with a Mystery Math Mistake to hunt for the mistake made counting up on the number line. Use place value ...

For statistical and mathematical purposes, OpenOffice.org's Calc spreadsheet includes a variety of ways to round off numbers. If you're a programmer, you may also be familiar with some of these ...

The ROUNDDOWN function is a Math and Trigonometry function in Microsoft Excel that rounds a number down toward zero. The formula for the ROUNDDOWN function is ROUNDDOWN(number, num-digits). The syntax ...