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Objectives:• Objective: Be aware of really large numbers, for

example “a googol”

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1,000,000 a million

1,000,000,000 a billion

1,000,000,000,000 a trillion

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Place Value: Teacher LedSome poignant million facts from the UN:

More than one million African children die of malaria each year Six million die of malnutrition before their fifth birthday Five million people, mostly children, die each year from water-borne diseases

Lighter facts:

Amsterdam has over one million bikes but only 700,000 Amsterdammers! If the Sun were a hollow ball, you could fit about one million Earths inside of it! There are about 8,000,000 words in the English language There are about 100,000 hairs on a human head There are approximately 7 billion people in the world The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons

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If a million people were to stand side-by-side in a line, how long do you think the line would be?

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If you could make a ladder to

reach the moon and the top

of one rung was 25cm from

the top of the previous one,

how many rungs would be

needed?

(The distance from the Earth

to the Moon is approximately

385,000km.)

If a million people held

hands, how far round the

world would they stretch?

How many would it take to

reach right round the world?

(The circumference of the

earth is approximately

40,000km.)

Choose one question to work on:

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Place Value: Teacher Led

Did you Google a googol?