Gladstone's+Mighty+Millions

**Room 3 at Gladstone kind of do.**
The kids in Room 3 at Gladstone School have been exploring 1000000 in a range of ways. This morning (10/6/2009) they and their teacher Ms P shared their findings and wonderings with the rest of the school. I was invited to share their celebration of learning and it was o much fun. Thanks Ms P and Room 3.

Here are a few pictures of the the class and their work.

The million dots. They dotted and coloured and copied one million dots on to sheets of paper and laid them all out in the hall. They started laying them out in the hall strip by strip - each strip had 40 sheets, each strip had one thousand dots. They were all carefully arranged and quite quickly they began to cover the hall floor. Once they were finished they could sit on the stage and admire their work and start to think about how large a million really is. They used a 1000s array to look at one million coins! They made posters about their giant array, about how much they might buy with a million dollars as well as reflecting on one million - they word huge was used a lot! They had other classes from around the school visit and they talked to them about their coin stack, about having a million dollars to spend, about one million stars, about a one metre cube and then they showed what a million hundreds and thousands looked like (there are 200000 in the picture). The whole school got to buy a slice of fairy bread with the 100000 hundreds and thousands on them - each slice cost One Million dollars.

Wow Gladstone what a wonderful day, what marvelous maths and interesting inquiry. I would love you to share your thoughts on your magic million - please send them to me in an email. Mr K