We do number crunching almost every day with our kids but have they really seen a million? or a ten thousand? In this I'll show you how you can do this.
Although many teachers will not agree with the introduction of base ten system in this book but I found it so intrigue and interesting and well ... unique. I believe out of curiosity and thanks to big colorful pictures, kids will read on till the end.
A "ten" is shown here as grain of sand that have been magnified.
A yellow gum attracted "one thousand" ants and I was wondering if there are actually a thousand ants drawn here.
Now this is some thing we don't see here in Pakistan! "ten thousand" people in a marathon!
We can make our younger kids believe that people with colorful flags in a political rally they see on TV (or a "dharna" for that matter) are actually in a "marathon" and I'm sure they'll be more than happy to see that many people "running".
Here "one hundred thousand" people are enjoying sport at a stadium. We had PSL 2018 final on March 25 at National Stadium, Karachi but its capacity was only 34,000 people.
Again grains of sands in a bucket are a "one million".
The book ends beautifully by narrating "This book started with one Earth, the planet we live on. There is only one Earth ...but look up in the sky on a clear night. There are millions of stars. Now you can count to million, and perhaps beyond..."
This book tells you what a 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, and a 1.000,000 look like. It is out of print book and I got it from Old Books vendors in Karachi.
COUNT TO A MILLION sure inspired me to have a unique way of looking at exponents of 10. Next time I'm teaching Base Ten Number System, this book will be my teaching resource!
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