1. Perspective Is Important
How much is a million?

2. Briefcase Full of Money

3. How Much Money Will Fit? In $50 bills In $100 bills $50,000 $100,000
$250,000
$500,000
$1,000,000
$1,500,000
$2,000,000
$2,500,000
$3,000,000
Briefcase Dimensions:
18” x 13” 4.5”
45.7 x 33 x 11.4 cm
In $50 bills
$ bill:  cm wide, by  cm long, and  cm in thickness
Attache: 18 x 13 x 4.5 = 45.7 x 33 x 11.4 cm
In $100 bills

4. How Much Money Will Fit? In $50 bills In $100 bills $100,000 $250,000
$500,000
$1,000,000
$1,500,000
$2,000,000
$3,000,000
In $50 bills
In $100 bills

5. How Tall is $1M?
We’ve already figured out how thick any note of U.S. currency is:  cm
If we stacked 1 million bills on top of each other, how tall would our stack of money be?
109 m (~30 stories!)
That’s the length of a football field and more than half the height of the Space Needle!

6. Estimation! How much would 1 million weigh??
Watch video: “How Much Does $1M Weigh?”
He estimated that 1 million dollar bills weighs about 900 kg (~2,000 lbs.)
How close is he? Let’s find out!
So even though estimation is not an “exact science” it is a pretty good tool to use when time is short.

7. How Much is 1 Million? Homework:
Choose an item of interest and quantify IN TWO WAYS what it would look like to have 1 million of that item.
Examples: How long is 1 million ____; How tall is 1 million _____; How heavy is 1 million _____; bring in 1 million of your item.
Show your work and provide an object of the same scale for reference/perspective
Examples: As tall as the Empire State Building; as massive as a blue whale; as long as 3 football fields.
DUE TUESDAY, September 15

8. Fermi Problems
Enrico Fermi was famous for rapid estimations that were highly accurate
We’re going to learn how to do these on our own!
First, some perspective: the scale of the universe
Next, an example Fermi estimation
Now, complete the cool down in your journals – we’ll go over the answer tomorrow in class 