Weekly Home Assignment? Group work? Enrichment?
1. John’s wealthy aunt passed away and left him $12 400 000.
· Write this amount in decimal form.
· At first John decided he wanted to collect his inheritance from the bank in $100 bills. How many bills would that be?
· Then John received some financial advice. He decided to invest three-quarters of his inheritance and spend the rest recklessly. His plan was to purchase matching Lamborghinis (one for himself and one for his wife) and spend the rest on a new home for them. What price range would he tell his real estate agent he was looking for in a home?
2. Arrange the following from least to greatest:
23.4 million ______
234 780 050 ______
23 478 005 ______
2 347 800.59 ______
3. Match the following:
A) Population of Canada _____ 33 300
B) Capacity of Rogers Center _____ 1 900
C) Population of Moncton _____ 33.3
D) # of millimetres in 33.3 kilometres _____ 33 390 141
E) # of kilometres in 33 300 metres _____ 117 727
F) Population of St Andrews _____ 50 516
4. When would having 17 000 000 of something be a lot to you and when would having the same amount of something else not seem like so much?
5. Write the largest possible 8-digit number that has 4 in the ten thousand place, 9 in the hundreds place, and 2 in the millions place. All the digits must be different.
p.s. Lamborghinis are currently selling for $270 000! J
MANNY BEING MANNY
Manny Raamirez’ salary: $17 016 480/year
162 games per regular season
Recently many missed 24 straight games on the DI list
What salary did Manny collect while he was on the DI list?
Student work:
(You may want them to research to determine his salary, # of games per year, and the number of games Manny missed)
$105 040/game x 24 games
“Manny Being Manny” made $2 520 960 while on the DI.
Extensions:
What could one buy with $2.5 million?
How long would the average worker need to work to make this much?
Some students can take these figures on to exploring income tax, investing this much money @?%. How do clubs pay such salaries? – endless possibilities for math here.
Is this Manny’s total salary?