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As numbers get larger, our ability to perceive them properly diminishes

  1. Bullet  Numbers Names

       Power of prefixes

       Exponents are easy

       

  1. Bullet  Comparisons & Visualizations

        How long is a million seconds? A billion seconds?

        How long will you have to listen to Middle C before you’ve heard a billion vibrations?

        If each water molecule were the size of a grain of sugar, how big would a water drop be?


  1. Bullet  Calculators

        Length, area & volume

        Acres and square feet: How big, really, is a 5000 acre forest fire?

        Metric conversions

      

There is a huge difference between a million, a billion and a trillion


  1. Bullet  A million people

       

  1. Bullet  A million dollars


  1. Bullet  A million gifts