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Believe it or not it's that time again. Sales on school supplies, long sleeves in the clothing aisles and the pools shutting their doors.
Personally, I love the "back-to-school" season, though I know not everyone feels that way. Hopefully, you'll find some inspiring ideas in this month's newsletter to get you're enthusiasm percolating. An excited teacher usually means excited students!
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Big Number Fun!
Try this for a fun, visual way to start off your math work. Discuss just how large a hundred, thousand, million and billion are. (Click HERE for some great sites to help children visualize these numbers)
Now ask if they know how large a googol is? A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. To illustrate this, use a package of 100 paper plates. First, place a large "1" on the wall or sidewalk. Now, lay down all 100 plates, placing a comma (written on a post-it note) between every three plates. Now your child can see just how large a googol really is!
As a side note, you might discuss how the folks at the popular search engine, Google, chose chose their name. In their own words:
What's a Google?
"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web. |
