Comparing Numbers Through One Million Introduction
How do you compare numbers?
Goal:
Goal:
The aquarium has been open for about a week, but they still have not paved the parking lot! So far, visitors don't seem to mind driving on a gravel parking lot. But the aquarium owner wants to pave the parking lot to make it nicer for the guests. Click the boxes below to see what the parking lot looks like now and what it will look like after it is paved!
Before
After
The owner calls two different paving companies to see how much they will charge to pave the parking lot. Click the boxes below to see how much each company charges!
Company 1
$1,245,899
Company 2
$1,250,725
The aquarium owner wants to choose the company that is charging the lesser amount of money to pave the parking lot.
Question
How can we find out which company to choose?
We can compare numbers!
We will use place-value charts to learn how to compare numbers up to the millions!