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dexteresVisualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"
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Sharri LaneA fun set of links for an economics class
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TC PhysicsWhat does one thousand pennies look like? One million? One billion?
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Jo BryantVisualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"
All the following pages have tables at the bottom, listing things such as the value of the pennies, size of the pile, weight, and area (if laid flat). All weights and measurements are U.S. standards, not metric.
It's best to step through the project starting from the beginning, but if you'd like to just jump in, links are available below. -
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Paula Naugle" Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?""
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Eric JacklichGraphics of pennies. What does 1 billion pennies look like?
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Nannette TaylorVisualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"
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Christina DiMicelli"The MegaPenny Project
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Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"
All the following pages have tables at the bottom, listing things such as the value of the pennies, size of the pile, weight, and area (if laid flat). All weights and measurements are U.S. standards, not metric." -
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Jason SchmidtVisualization tool to show large amounts using pennies. Gives an idea about scale and how much each amount really is.
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Donna Murraygreat visuals to help students understand small and large numbers
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BTerresIf you laid a million pennies end-to-end in a straight line, you’d ask yourself, “Why did I just do that?” For that matter, who has that kind of small change?
The nice folks at The MegaPenny Project do. Virtual pennies, anyway. And they’re stacking them into piles the size of the Sears Tower to help students visualize just how big the big numbers are. It’s tough to think what a billion of anything would look like, except for maybe grains of sand, and who’d want to count those? Pennies are more relatable, countable and stackable. And who among us wouldn’t want to see a 300-ton brick of copper the size of a football field?
Show this to your math class when you get into numbers with a lot of zeros. The MegaPenny Project is also useful if you’re studying weights, measures and volumes. If I’ve got more than a dollar in coins in my pocket, I need to tighten my belt a notch to keep myself trousered. If you tried carrying around a hundred or a thousand, I expect you’d develop a new appreciation for paper tender. -BILL FERRIS -
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Bochi 23wonderful math project that could be replicated. How much, how heavy, how far... all in pennies.
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fivbert Mrs V'BERTwhat does ... a large number.... look loike?
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Jessica NoselskiWhat does a million pennies look like???
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Sallie DraperVisualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one s
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isualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"
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Nathan CaswellVisualization of very large numbers using pennies.
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Linda ClintonVisualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"
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