What is a Million????
My object: a golf ball
Measurement:
1 ½ inches or
1.5 inches
Ms. Wick’s Picks...
The Statue of Liberty
Height = 305 feet
The Golden Gate Bridge
Length = 8,891 feet
The Eiffel Tower
Height = 984 feet
My object: a golf ball
Measurement:
1 ½ inches or 1.5 inches
If I had a million golf balls lined
up, how far would that stretch?
1.5inches x 1,000,000 = 1,500,000
inches
or
1,500,000 ➗ 12 =
125,000 feet
The Statue of Liberty
Height = 305 feet
A million golf balls:
125,000 feet
125,000 feet (a million golf balls)
➗
305 feet (height of the Statue of
Liberty)
=
about 409 Statues of Liberty can fit
into the length of a million golf balls
The Golden Gate Bridge
Length = 8,891 feet
125,000 (a million
golf balls
➗
8,891 (Length of
Golden Gate
Bridge)
=
About 14 Golden
gate Bridges can
fit into a million
golf balls
125,000 (a million
golf balls
➗
984 (height of Eiffel
Tower
=
About 127 Eiffel
Towers can fit into a
million golf balls
The Eiffel Tower
Height = 984 feet
If you took 1,000,000 golf balls and laid them out starting at County Line
Elementary, you would end up approximately in Okauchee Lake, WI.
125,000 ➗ 5,280 = about 23 miles
Explanation:
After you have figured out all your calculations, you are to write a paragraph
explaining steps you took to solve your calculations.
For example, I might start by saying:
First I figured out that a golf ball is 1.5 inches. Then I calculated
1,000,000 x 1.5 to get 1,500,000 inches. Next I had to convert it into
feet so I did 1,500,000 inches divided by 12 and the answer was 125,000
ft. I was comparing 1,000,000 golf balls to famous landmarks and the
first one I chose was the Statue of Liberty. She is 305 feet tall. I wanted
to see how many Lady Liberties would fit into the height of 1,000,000
golf balls. I divided 125,000 ft (which is the height of 1,000,000 golf
balls) by 305 ft (which is the height of the Statue of Liberty) and the
answer was about 409. I did the same calculations with the other
landmarks, using the different heights.