This is called rounding down. However, if you want to round to the nearest one, look at the 9 in the tenths place, and round up to 1,000. Students will round decimal numbers to the given places. To create this article, 14 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. If you're required to round that number, you would round it down. Children making errors in rounding usually need to step back and work on place value. This function has two parameters: the value to round (number) and how many decimal places it should get (decimals).When that latter parameter isn't set, it defaults to 2.. Understand the idea of decimal places. To round a number to the nearest tenth, look at the next place value to the right (the hundredths). Rounding 838.274: When you "round to the nearest _____" regardless of what goes in the blank the steps are nearly always the same: 3250 rounded to the nearest hundred is 3300, 3.141 rounded to the nearest hundredth is 3.14. Round to the nearest hundred. {"smallUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/images\/thumb\/8\/8c\/Round-Decimals-Step-1-Version-3.jpg\/v4-460px-Round-Decimals-Step-1-Version-3.jpg","bigUrl":"\/images\/thumb\/8\/8c\/Round-Decimals-Step-1-Version-3.jpg\/aid1721879-v4-728px-Round-Decimals-Step-1-Version-3.jpg","smallWidth":460,"smallHeight":345,"bigWidth":728,"bigHeight":546,"licensing":"