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How many is 6 million?
How many is 6 million?
By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews, whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to Germany, were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included some 200,000 Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living in institutional settings, were murdered in the so-called Euthanasia Program.
Task:
Task:
Try to imagine 6 million. What does that look like? Your tour group will brainstorm methods to represent 6 million in a mathematical expression that gives this huge number form.
1. Brainstorm a place or item that you would like to use in your representation.
2. Use the internet to find out the facts (i.e., the capacity of a stadium, size of a candy bar)
3. Use your math skills to calculate your expression.
Examples:
Example #1
Sports Authority Field at Mile High holds 76,125 people.
6 million would fill the stadium 78.8 times.
Example #2
A stick of gum is 2 inches long.
11 million sticks of gum would stretch from Parker to Denver and back 9 times
Example #3
A Boeing 737 has a capacity of 125.
There would have to be 48,000 planes to accommodate the number of people lost during the Holocaust.
Example #4
The CMS Library has 9,343 books. If each person lost during the Holocaust was represented by a book. We would lose our library collection 643 times.
Two American soldiers in the Flossenbuerg concentration camp look at a pile of prisoners' shoes.
Two American soldiers in the Flossenbuerg concentration camp look at a pile of prisoners' shoes.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 77028
Two American soldiers in the Flossenbuerg concentration camp look at a pile of prisoners' shoes.
Original caption reads: "When troops of the 90th Infantry division, Third U.S. Army, captured Floss, Germany, six miles from the Czechoslovakian border, another Nazi concentration camp passed out of existence. The camp, fenced off with electrical barbed wire, contained 16,000 sick and starved inmates, including 400 cases of typhus. Originally, the enclosure confined 60,000 political prisoners and military prisoners-of-war of all nations. It was estimated that 1,400 a month died of starvation after which their remains were burned by Nazi guards. These pictures were taken April 24, 1945, after entry of American forces into the town."
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