Unit 6 Contents

1. Which stadium is the smallest? Which team plays there?
2. How many seats are in the stadium?
3. Where is the stadium? How many people live in that city?

The job of the U.S. Census Bureau is to collect data about the people in the United States. The populations of the U.S. cities in the table are from the U.S. Census Bureau. They are estimates for the number of people who lived in the cities in 2008.

5. Do you think you can know the exact number of people who live in a city? Why or why not?

Use the Moving Ahead with Large Numbers Workshop Menu page in the Student Activity Book to practice working with large numbers.

Use the data in the Stadiums, Teams, and Cities Table to answer the questions below.

1. Write the following numbers in words:
1. The number of seats in Yankee Stadium.
2. The number of people who live in Chicago.
3. The number of seats in Estadio do Maracana.
1. Which stadiums have more seats than the number of people who live in the city?
2. Which two football stadiums have about the same number of seats?
1. Round the population of State College, Pennsylvania, to the nearest thousand.
2. Round this population to the nearest ten thousand.
4. About how many more seats are in Yankee Stadium than Wrigley Field?
5. The first Olympic Games were held over 2000 years ago in Olympia, Greece. The stadium where the games were held could hold 45,000 people. Which stadiums have about the same number of seats as the ancient stadium in Olympia?