How Much Is a Trillion

How Much Is a Trillion

Really Big Numbers What's the biggest number you can think of? One hundred? One thousand? Ten thousand? We use special words such as million, billion, and trillion to talk about really big numbers. But what do these words mean? And what do a million, a billion, and a trillion look like?

Hide and Seek Have you ever played the game of hide and seek? In hide and seek, one person counts up to a number while everyone else hides. But some numbers are so big that you couldn't count up to them in your whole lifetime.

How Much Is a Million? We write one million as a one followed by six zeros, like this: 1, 000, 000. Do you know how much a million is? Some of the world's largest cities have millions of people living in them. If you are lucky, you might win a million dollars in a lottery.

I've Told You a Million Times! Maybe you think your parents have told you to clean your room a million times. But have they really? Let's say that every day your parents tell you ten times to clean your room. You would be over 273 years old before they told you for the millionth time!

A Million Pennies Imagine a jar with one thousand pennies in it. Now imagine one thousand jars, each with one thousand pennies inside. That's a million pennies.