Math

Today, we went in depth in math class. A while ago, a student asked me about googol and googolplex, not to be confused with google. I said I would look into it and we would speak more about it. Then, Monday I was in a cafe and found and older, amazing math book. I was reading through it before bed and there it was, a section on googol and googolplex. So, today, after compliments and appreciations, I read to them from the book. The story goes that a boy called Pasha was interested in the largest number possible and came up with the number googol, a 1 with a 100 zeros after it. This is more than the grains of sand or the stars in the sky. The thing is, it would take so long to write the number that there needed to be a mathematical shorthand and so 10 to the power of a 100. Next Pasha dreamed up googolplex, 10 to the power of googol. I wrote these numbers on the board. Isa was fascinated and volunteered infinity as vast and larger than googol or googolplex. She pointed out that infinity was shaped such as it is because it wraps around infinitely, you need never raise your pencil when tracing it over and over again. I showed them the brain gym activity in which one traces a large infinity symbol with the whole arm in front of one’s face in order to connect the two sides of our brains and we all did it together. We remembered reading the book ‘How Much Is A Million’ which illustrated the vastness of certain numbers.