Millions Place Value Chart
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Millions Place Value Chart
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6.
Introduce the 'Millions' place value chart. Then read
the 3 digit number on the millions chart followed
by the family name. Move to the thousands chart and
do the same and then move on to the Units chart and
do the same.
Once
students get the pattern of reading the 3 digit number
followed by the family name and then moving on to
the next chart they are on their way to being able
to read any number.
Millions
research:
- List the top five most populated cities in the world.
- What is the combined total population of these cities?
- How many rivots in the Eiffel Tower?
- How many cubic centimeters in one cubic metre?
- Estimate how long would it take to count to a million
counting at one number a second 24 hours a day?
- Use a calculator to work out how long it would take
to count to a million at one number per second.
- List the world's top five money earners for last
year from only one of these professions - singers,
bands, actors or sportspeople.
- If you made $50 000 a year how long would it take
to make some of these amounts?
- If your heart beats about 40 000 000 times a year
how many times has your heart beaten up to today?
Ok, might run out of digits on your calculator so
let's use an online
heartbeat calculator that also works out approximately
how many breathes you have taken so far on this planet.
