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www.mathletics.comHow Much is 10000?
Questions to facilitate the learning
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Do you think that your picture makes 10000 look like a lot or not so much? Explain.
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What other number does your picture clearly relate 10000 to? Explain.
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Are there other numbers that are related to 10000 in your picture? Explain.
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How do you think your picture shows how big 10000 is?
Scaffolding the learning
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How do you read 10000? Could that help you come up with an idea for a picture?
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How might you show how much 100 is? Could that help you with 10000?
Extending the learning
Students might figure out how many standard pages of paper would be needed to show exactly
10000 dots.
What’s the point of this task?
The goal of this task is to help students make sense of a large number by relating it to more familiar
numbers. To give a feel for how much 10000 is, the student will need to show 10000 as groups of, for
example, 1000s or 100s or 10s. The focus should be on students’ explanations of how the picture gives a
true sense of the size of 10000.
One possibility is that a student would create a set of 2 x 5 dots. They might replicate that set 10 times to
make 100. That larger amount might be replicated 10 x 10 times to make 10000.
Or a student might choose to show 20 stacks of ten $50 notes. Or a student might choose to show the
scale of a graph going up by 100 or 500 as far as 10000.
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