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"This one worked really well and got the pupils thinking! I made one change though, which was to change the number of days question to the days from 1500 AD because it was a bit too close to the number of seconds in a week, (700,000 and 600,000 respectively)"

Tam, sussex pgce
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

 

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Answers

994 = 96 059 601

Population of the UK is roughly 61 000 000

One thousand squared is 1 000 000

The number of days since 1st January in the year 1 is roughly 733295

The number of seconds in a week is 604 800
 

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