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	            <title><![CDATA[Cool Beans: What does one TRILLION dollars look like?: A million here, a million there, what's a trillion between friends?]]></title>
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	            	            Max,

Nice job! Once, long ago, I worked with a class of third graders. The teacher wanted to make the concept of a billion (!) more concrete for the kids. So I suggested collecting pop tops (that should gove a clue as to how long ago this was.) The kids worked for months collecting pop tops. They got 100,000 tops together. It was a far cry from one billion. But by measuring homw much space the tops took they figured out that a billion took a whole bunch of classrooms.

I shudder to think about collecting a trillion...	            ]]></description>
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