Estimating six million
How long would it take you count until 6 million?
This exercise is really easily explained, but much less easily done!
In the first instance you should just try and do this exercise with out reading the tips that are below. See if you can think of the issues yourself!
When you have your estimate, you should check the following list of points to see if you have made important considerations!
Make sure you have explained very clearly how you have arrived at your estimate and then compare your estimate with others made by people in your class! How different are they? Have a good discussion about it with each other and try to agree as a whole class on an estimate for the time it would take you to count to 6 million! Good luck!
Lastly, ask yourselves and your teacher why the number six million was chosen? What can it represent? How does this exercise help us understand the meaning of the number?
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