🚀 go-pugleaf

Sorry about the previous empty message, Phys-l-ers.

I would like to thank the person who suggested the activity in which
the students list examples of different sized groups of people.  I gave
this activity as a homework assignment after a lesson on powers of 10.
My students were asked to use whatever resources necessary to come up
with sample groups for 1, 10, 100, ... , 10^9 people.  I received some
interesting answers.  They will either make you smile or make you pull
your hair out.  Check it out --

     1.  10^6 people could be found at a party in New York.
     2.  10^9 people could be found at a McDonalds in China
     3.  10^3 people are on the rival high school football team
     4.  the population of Indianapolis is 10^4
     5.  10^6 people attended both the most recent Woodstock and any
         given Dallas Cowboys football game
     6.  10^9 people live in Los Angeles County

Thankfully, these responses were not the norm, but they were actual
responses.  I'm not making this up.

I'd hate to be in charge of hor's douvres (sp?) at one of those New
York parties!   <=;

Cherie                                 Cherie Lehman
clehman@purccvm.bitnet                 West Lafayette High School
clehman@vm.cc.purdue.edu               West Lafayette  IN  47906
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