Title: Connections with Measurement and Patterns
1Connections with Measurement and Patterns
2Suggested literature to use in conjunction with
this power point
- Schwartz, David. (1985). How Much is a Million?
New York William Morrow Company, Inc.
3Measuring One Million
Instead of measuring things such as children and
goldfish, we are going to do an activity that
measures other things, and find out how many of
those it takes to equal one million!
4The Dollar Bill
5The length of one dollar bill
Round to the nearest inch
6 inches
6Length of 2 dollar bills
6 inches
6 inches
So, 6 6 12 inches or 6 in. x 2 bills
12 inches
7What would the length of 10 dollar bills be?
So 6 in x WHAT will give me the length of 10
bills?
6 inches
6 in. x 10 bills 60 inches
8100 Dollar Bills
1 Dollar Bill 6 inches
10 Dollar Bills 60 inches
100 Dollar Bills ?
9100 Dollar Bills
6 inches
If 1 dollar bill is 6 inches, then 100 dollar
bills would be
600 inches!
10Dollar Bills
1 Dollar Bill 6 inches
10 Dollar Bills 60 inches
100 Dollar Bills 600 inches
11Who can guess what would come next?
1 Dollar Bill 6 inches
10 Dollar Bills 60 inches
100 Dollar Bills 600 inches
1000 Dollar Bills
6000 inches
12How many inches would 1,000,000 dollar bills be?
1 Dollar Bill 6 inches
10 Dollar Bills 60 inches
100 Dollar Bills 600 inches
1,000 Dollar Bills 6,000 inches
10,000 Dollar Bills ??
100,000 Dollar Bills ??
1,000,000 Dollar Bills ??
13What is the pattern?
14Can you think of an equation so we could find the
distance of any number of bills?
Distance of bills laid end to end (6 inches) X
(number of bills)
15Dr. Pepper
16Can Measurement
5 Inches
17If I wanted to stack 1,000,000 Dr. Pepper cans on
top of each other, how tall would it be?
1 can 5 inches
10 cans ??
100 cans ??
1,000 cans ??
10,000 cans ??
100,000 cans ??
1,000,000 cans ??
181,000,000 cans is
5,000,000 inches
19How many gallons would there be if there were 100
cups filled with water?
20100 cups ? Gallons
16 cups 1 gallon
100 cups ? Gallon(s)
Answer 6.25 gallons
21So If 100 cups 6.25 gallons
Then 1,000,000 cups would be how many gallons?
Hint Remember our pattern!
22If there were 100 pints of milk, how many gallons
would it fill?
8 pints 1 gallon
Answer 12.5 gallons
23100 Pints ? Gallons
8 pints 1 gallon
100 pints ? gallons
Answer 12.5 gallons
24What can YOU measure???