Grade 3 Football Rounding Worksheet + Answer Key

This free Grade 3 football rounding worksheet uses real Seahawks and Patriots statistics to practice rounding. It is part 6 of LitZone's eight-part football math series. The student PDF has 10 questions on one page, with a separate one-page answer key. Both carry the LitZone logo and are free for home, homeschool and classroom use.

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Print the student page on US Letter paper at actual size, or use fit-to-page on A4. Keep the answer key separate. A pencil and an eraser are enough; the graph activity also benefits from a ruler. Start with a short conversation about the skill, then let the child work at a comfortable pace. No account, email address or payment is needed to download these printables.

The real game behind the worksheet

Seattle played New England on February 8, 2026, at Levi's Stadium in California. Seattle won Super Bowl LX, 29-13. SEA means Seattle; NE means New England. These are historical results from the official NFL gamebook, not September 2026 results, forecasts or current roster claims. Player abbreviations show the teams they represented in that game. A carry is a run with the ball; a catch is also called a reception. Yardage tells us how much distance was credited to a player or team.

The game provides the numbers, but students do not need to have watched it. Read the directions together and identify what each number measures before starting. Keep yards, catches and scoreboard points distinct: a yard total is not a point total.

Start with the two neighboring multiples

Rounding chooses a nearby ten or hundred to describe a number approximately. On this sheet, students round rushing and receiving yards to the nearest ten, then round the two quarterbacks' passing yards to the nearest hundred. The table prints the rounding place in every row, so children can check it instead of relying on the size of the number or the player's position.

Use Cooper Kupp's 61 receiving yards as an opening example. The neighboring multiples of ten are 60 and 70. Sixty-one is one away from 60 and nine away from 70, so it rounds to 60. A small number line helps students see why. Connect the visual explanation to the familiar rule about the ones digit only after they can describe the nearer endpoint.

The page also includes midpoint cases. DeMario Douglas's 45 receiving yards lies exactly between 40 and 50. For these positive whole numbers, a halfway value rounds up to 50. Kenneth Walker III's 135 rushing yards similarly rounds to 140. The answer key states the result and rounding place, making it easy to distinguish a place-value error from a calculation slip.

The actual statistic does not change

Say "61 yards rounds to 60 yards" rather than "Kupp had 60 yards." The official total remains 61. Rounding gives a useful approximate description for a different purpose. The student table therefore keeps actual yards and rounded yards in separate columns. This supports a habit that matters in other subjects: preserve a measurement even when reporting an estimate.

The passing rows change the unit of rounding to hundreds. Sam Darnold's 202 passing yards is closer to 200 than 300; Drake Maye's 295 is closer to 300 than 200. These are individual passing totals, not the net team passing figures used in the two-step worksheet. Students do not need the accounting details to round them, but the supplied numbers are labeled accurately.

Look for a place-value explanation

If a child rounds 202 to 200 correctly, ask which two hundreds surround it. That question reveals more than a correct answer alone. If a student gives 300 for a value that should be rounded to tens, point back to the "Nearest" column and have them restate the requested place before trying again.

As an extension, ask for two different whole numbers that would round to the same ten as one worksheet value. Label those new numbers as math examples rather than football statistics. Another useful discussion is whether rounding can change which player appears to have the larger total. Keep the original values visible so children can compare an estimate with an exact measurement without confusing the two.

Try the worksheet questions

Round rushing and receiving yards to the nearest 10. Round passing yards to the nearest 100. The actual stat stays the same. Your rounded answer is an estimate.

1. Cooper Kupp (SEA): 61 receiving yards. Round to the nearest 10.

2. AJ Barner (SEA): 54 receiving yards. Round to the nearest 10.

3. Jaxon Smith-Njigba (SEA): 27 receiving yards. Round to the nearest 10.

4. Mack Hollins (NE): 78 receiving yards. Round to the nearest 10.

5. DeMario Douglas (NE): 45 receiving yards. Round to the nearest 10.

6. Kenneth Walker III (SEA): 135 rushing yards. Round to the nearest 10.

7. Rhamondre Stevenson (NE): 23 rushing yards. Round to the nearest 10.

8. TreVeyon Henderson (NE): 19 rushing yards. Round to the nearest 10.

9. Sam Darnold (SEA): 202 passing yards. Round to the nearest 100.

10. Drake Maye (NE): 295 passing yards. Round to the nearest 100.

Answer key and checking work

Try the student questions before opening these worked answers. The separate answer PDF uses the same numbering.

1. 61 rounds to 60 (nearest 10)

2. 54 rounds to 50 (nearest 10)

3. 27 rounds to 30 (nearest 10)

4. 78 rounds to 80 (nearest 10)

5. 45 rounds to 50 (nearest 10)

6. 135 rounds to 140 (nearest 10)

7. 23 rounds to 20 (nearest 10)

8. 19 rounds to 20 (nearest 10)

9. 202 rounds to 200 (nearest 100)

10. 295 rounds to 300 (nearest 100)

Grade 3 skill and classroom use

This activity practices 3.NBT.A.1 within the Grade 3 Common Core mathematics standards. It is focused practice for that skill, not a complete assessment of everything in the standard. For example, a correct numeric answer alone does not show how a learner reasoned. Ask the child to explain one choice with words, a drawing or a written equation.

For a small group, have students solve independently first, then compare methods with a partner. One learner can read a question while the other identifies the useful numbers; swap roles on the next question. If a learner makes an error, return to the unit and the operation before correcting the arithmetic. Keep a brief note of the kind of support needed so the next practice session addresses it.

Continue the Grade 3 football math series

Choose the next skill your learner is practicing. Each post includes its own student PDF, worked answers and teaching suggestions.

• Multiplication practice
• Division practice
• Two-step word problems
• Addition within 1,000
• Subtraction within 1,000
• Fractions practice
• Bar graph practice

Build your own team in LitZone

When the worksheet is finished, build your own team in LitZone with a parent or teacher. Choose real NFL players and give the team a name. You can also explore our football math activities and fantasy football lesson plans for another classroom session. The PDFs in this series remain free to download and use.