round 12,476,789 to the nearest thousand

Question

we want to round this number to the nearest thousand and i disagree with the answer in the back of the book.  i am working with my 3rd grader and and have worked up to this point and now i don't agree.  please help if possible.

thanks,

Answer 1

OOOOOOOOOOOOO I KNOW! Just refer to the rounding poem! Find your number(in this case its the number in the thousands place) Look right next door(to the right) 4 or less just ignore(ignore the heck outta that number) 5 up add one more(just one dont get too crazy) All digits in front stay the same(aww i hate being the same) All digits behind ZEROS YOUR NAME(yay its big fat ZEROS) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ in this case you would round 12,476,789 to: 12,476,800 I was glad to help yours truley A FIFTH GRADER NAOMI! (hope this helps)

Answer 2

Wrong Brilione,

You just rounded to the hundreths. The correct answer would be 12,477,000