Worksheet 2: Thinking about scale

Worksheet 2: Thinking about scale#

Your name:

Your student ID number:

Contextualizing#

Example 1: Student Loans. “The average federal student loan debt balance is $38,375.”

(1) What type of number is it?

(2) What can I compare this number to?

  1. What would I have expected this number to be?

Example 2: Car crashes. In 2022, there were 42,514 fatalities due to car accidents in the United States.

(1) What type of number is it?

(2) What can I compare this number to?

  1. What would I have expected this number to be?

Ballparking practice#

  1. How many bike trips (from point A to point B) happen on Stanford campus on an average day?

  2. How many hours per year does the average Stanford student spend on homework?

  3. How much money is spent on college tuition in the US each year?

  4. How large is the circumference of the earth in miles?

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