Unit 3 Contents

1. Which state has the smallest population?
2. What is the population of this state?
1. Which state has the largest population?
2. What is the population of this state?
8. Which state has a reported population closest to 1 million? How did you decide?
9. What is the reported population of Arkansas rounded to the nearest million? How did you decide?

Check-In: Questions 10–14

10. Put the populations of Arizona, Colorado, and Connecticut in order from smallest to largest.
1. Write the population of Alabama in expanded form.
2. Write the population of Florida in expanded form.
1. Write the population of Connecticut in word form.
2. Write the population of Delaware in word form.
13. Which two states have populations of about 5 million people? How did you decide?
1. Round the population of California to the nearest 10 million.
2. Round the population of California to the nearest million.

Play the Spin and Read Big Numbers Game in the Student Activity Book to practice reading large numbers correctly.

Represent Large Numbers Using Number Lines

Complete the Population Lines page in the Student Activity Book. Use the number lines on that page to complete Questions 15–18.

15. Show the position of each state's population in the 2012 State Populations Table 1 on the appropriate number line. Alaska has been added to the correct number line as an example.
1. The population of Arizona is between which two benchmarks? Use these benchmarks to round the population of Arizona to the nearest million.
2. Name the two benchmarks that the population of Alabama is between. Use these benchmarks to round the population of Alabama to the nearest 1 million.
3. Round the population of Delaware to the nearest hundred thousand. Which two benchmarks did you use?