Can You Count to a Googol?

Posted on 14 August 2018 by Robert E. Wells

Introduces the concepts of very large numbers, up to a googol, and multiples of ten. Best Read Books Can You Count to a Googol? author Robert E. Wells – kino-fada.fr I will always remember this book for being at the center of my first independent math lesson For fifth grade, my topic was multiplying with powers of ten using exponents, and Can You Count to a Googolreally helped introduce all of that math content What I could not have anticipated while writing the lesson plan was that the students I ...Beginning with 1 the number of bananas you can balance onyour nose, if you re a good banana balancer, the author keeps adding and illustrating the effect of adding zeros with his zany illustrations until he passes the googol, a real number named by the nine year old nephew of the first mathematician to write it down as far as we know in the 1930 s a Dr Edward Kasner One of t...Though its examples may not be quite as elaborate as in How Much Is a Million , I think I like this onebecause it covers a lotabout even bigger numbers, and actually explains some math along the way such as that adding a zero to a number makes it ten times bigger And the examples are still pretty creative penguins with scoops of ice cream, baskets of marshmallows, raining pennies, etc It s hard to visualize just how big a googol is 1 followed by 100 zeroes , but this book c Though its examples may not be quite as elaborate as in How Much Is a Million , I think I like this onebecause it covers a lotabout even bigger numbers, and actually explains some math along the way such as that adding a zero to a number makes it ten times bigger And the examples are still pretty creative penguins with scoops of ice cream, baskets of marshmallows, raining pennies, etc It s hard to visualize just ...My five year old fancies himself a budding mathematician He adores many books by this author Fabulous illustrations and relatable text.This is an entertaining book that teaches children about large numbers We just read On Beyond a Million An Amazing Math Journey, so it was good to compare the different ways in which the numbers are described This book does not go into exponents as much, but it does explain the system by which the largest numbers were named It also answers questions about what is considered a real number such as quadrillion versus gazillion The narrative is informative and engaging and the illustrations This is an...This book is helpful in allowing students to see what multiples of tens look like Many students have a hard time understanding how multiplying by ten changes the number but the visual representations in this book would be helpful to ground students in their thinking I could see using this with ...CCSS.Math.Content.5.NBT.A.2 Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10Use whole number exponents to denote powers of 10.Our class read this as a review of place value and as a segue for introducing exponents powers of ten The kids definitely came away with an idea of exponential growth The illustrations were very appropriate in helping them see what happens when you multiply by ten It specifically pointed out that each time you add a ze CCSS.Math.Content.5.NBT.A.2 Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10Use whole number exponents to denote powers of 10.Our class read this as ...This book reminded me of my first graders when the class first learned about estimation After the first few children took guesses it became a contest of sorts for who could should the biggest and most ridiculous number they had ever heard They seemedinterest in being able to say a large number than say a close guess This book would be great to discuss estimation and how we know some numbers and just way too big, it would also be useful for teaching place value and how the addition of This book reminded me of my first graders when the class first learned about estimation After the first few children took guesses it became a contest of sorts for who could should the biggest and most ridiculous number they had ever heard They seemedinterest in being able to say a large number than say a close guess This book would be great to discuss estimation and how we know some numbers and just way too bi...Liked this book about number sense just as much as Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is It explains big numbers in the best way I can think of to get a feel for them I nice touch at the end was the last page spread that explained how to come up with the repre...Interesting look at hard to imagine large numbers Good illustrations demonstrate multiples of ten, but I lowered the rating 1 star because the illustrations are a bit off and the book doesn t mention the concept of infinity.

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14 August 2018

Robert E. Wells