To Nearest Integer

Free interactive math game: To Nearest Integer — 4.6 → 5. Part of the Rounding category on MathKite.

Example problems

Taken from the generator that powers this exercise. A fresh set appears every time the page is opened, and the printable worksheet holds ten of them.

  1. 65.2 =
  2. 24.4 =
  3. 16.69 =
  4. 27.5 =

About this exercise

Pushing a decimal to the whole number it lies closest to.

How to solve it

Look at the tenths digit. Below 5 keep the whole number, 5 or more and it moves up by one.

Worked example

7.62 rounds to 8, while 7.42 rounds to 7.

Common mistake

Discarding the decimal part. Truncating 7.62 to 7 is not the same as rounding it.