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Activity Outcome	Estimating, reading, writing, saying and understanding large whole numbers. Time
MTS Set	MTS7
NATIONAL Curriculum	The Number System
Topics	Understand Whole Numbers
Keywords	Strategies, Large Numbers, Integers
Grouping	Independent
Resources	Not applicable
Lesson Notes	Allow students time and space to work independently. Observe efforts to visualise and organise their problem solving into an inquiry process (Strategy-procedure, Working-calculations, Finding-verify). Conduct whole class discussion of methods and findings so students are using large numbers in context. Conclude with a 'best' strategy agreement. Ask students to write several similar investigations such as: "How many hours did the world's oldest person live for? How many minutes old will I be on my next birthday? How old was I when I passed 1 000 000 minutes? 100 000 seconds? ... See Internet Links below.
Reflections	No specific reflection
Internet Links	http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/home/mcanapero/longvty.html Take the longevity test. http://longevity-science.org/ F or students and teachers interested in the longevity aspects of health science.
Answers	1 000 000 hours is approx. 114 years