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What does one million look like?

By Linda | February 22, 2008

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Kids are fascinated by really big numbers.  In particular, ONE MILLION seems to hold a particular allure.  It’s very difficult to illustrate large numbers in a way that makes sense to children.  After all, most of us don’t have a million of anything just laying around. …Well, except for maybe dust particles!

Here are a couple of handy examples of ONE MILLION  and a link to a website that does a fantastic job of conveying what some REALLY REALLY big numbers look like using pennies.  It’s called the MegaPenny Project.

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This lucite box contains 1,ooo,ooo pennies

 

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There are approximately 1,000,000 hairs on the heads of 10 school children

 

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Topics: Health & the Human Body, Science Factoids, The Petri Dish |

One Response to “What does one million look like?”

  1. Who Wants to be a Millionaire? | ScienceJunkies.com Says:
    May 1st, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    […] To see what one million looks like CLICK HERE […]

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