What is a million?

Once, when I was a Grade 5 teacher, it was my job to teach place value up to one million.  That's such a huge number to imagine that it's best to break it down into actual "things" that students can visualise.  For example:

• It's the amount of letters in a 600 page book.
• It's the number of seconds in 11 and a half days.
• It's the number of times a car tyre rotates when you drive from Amsterdam to Lisbon.
• It's the number of millimetres in a kilometre.

And as of today, it's the number of people who have read my blog.

Thanks to each and every one of you for keeping me going!