How Much is a Trillion?

Posted on by Denise Gaskins

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[Photo by reubenaingber.]

If you collected stacks of $100 bills, could you fit a trillion dollars into your bedroom?

In your house?

In a warehouse?

If you spent a dollar a second, how long would it take to spend a trillion dollars?

[HT: Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds.]

4 thoughts on “How Much is a Trillion?”

  1. You have very meaningful ideas and your concepts are pretty amazing. Do you have any suggestions on how to introduce probability to 6th grade middle school students?

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