How can I use this resource?

This huge 33 x 43 inch poster demonstrates in an effective, very simple way what a million is. This is done by ‘bundling’ (otherwise known as ‘grouping’). In mathematics, bundling or grouping means to group small quantities together in order to be able to grasp large numbers more quickly.

One million is an unimaginably large number, and not just for children. One million is a thousand times greater than one thousand. Counting to one million would be an extremely tedious task - it would in fact take about 12 days! OK, so we know that a million grams is a ton and a million millimeters is a kilometer. We also know that dinosaurs lived 230 million years ago... but does that help us visualize one million??

One million is an interesting number because it‘s huge and – at the same time – it‘s the smallest of the big numbers (just small enough that we can still imagine it). It sits exactly on the border between the world we can imagine and the world of the completely unimaginable. Big numbers are really big... too big to be able to understand them properly without some kind of visual aid.

What does this resource contain?

This resource contains templates for a huge poster (33 x 43 inches) that is made of 30 sheets of paper.

The poster is composed of:

• 10 x 10 dots = 100 dots, which is equal to a one-hundred bundle
• 10 x 10 one-hundred bundles = 10.000 dots, which is equal to one ten-thousand bundle
• 10 x 10 ten-thousand bundles = 1.000.000 dots!!!