So this got me thinking about prefixes, and distracted me from what I'm supposed to be doing (which is wrapping Christmas presents). When we do the Infinity Street lesson in the grade 2 Column Algorithms & Place Value block, I always have to go through number prefixes. It would be nice to have a list of related words that I could refer to, organized and ready to go.
Introducing the Equals Sign ("Is the Same As") and Infinity
We have houses and mailboxes up to septillion, and slips of paper with the names of all of the families up to novemdecillion
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Simple
Thousand
Million
Billion
Trillion
Quadrillion
Quintillion
Sextillion
Septillion
Octillion
Nonillion
Decillion
Undecillion
Duodecillion
Tredecillion
Quattuordecillion
Quindecillion
Sexdecillion
Septendecillion
Octodecillion
Novemdecillion
I like to give them the slips of paper after septillion and have them figure out how to put them in order!
When it comes to talking through the prefixes, you can refer to the months of the year as a way to help but this can get surprisingly tricky since September is no longer month #7, October is no longer month #8, etc. I remember finding this irritating when I was a child!
They find out the reason for this in grade 3 Calendars, so you can plant the seeds of, "I wonder..."
I have actually found Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss to be extremely useful in this lesson, especially for sliding under the radar the prefix < sex > as representing six (trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, septet, octet, nonet).
Here is what I have so far, and I'd be happy to add your suggestions:
Million
- 'milli' means a thousand; a million is a thousand thousands
millimeter, millileter, milligram
millipede
Billion
- 2
bicycle
biped
binary (in computers), non-binary (in people)
Trillion
- 3
tricycle
triangle
trilogy
triple, triplet
Quadrillion
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4
quadrilateral
quadruple, quadruplet
quadrant (in coordinate graphing)
Quintillion
- 5
quintuple, quintuplet
quintain
Adam of the Road
quintet
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
Sextillion
- 6
sextuple, sextuplet
sextet
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
Septillion
- 7
September
The Story of Clocks and Calendars
septet
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
Octillion
- 8
octopus
octagon
Nonillion
- 9
nonagon
Decillion
- 10
decagon
decimal
decimate (yes, really)
December
The Story of Clocks and Calendars
decimeter, deciliter, decigram
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