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Volume: Counting Stars
This video, from Twig World, begins by asking how do astronomers estimate the number of stars in the night sky. To explain how it is done, a method of calculating the number of grains of sand on a beach is shown. The same principles are used to estimate the number of stars in the sky.
The video is accompanied by a lesson plan and a worksheet requiring students to calculate the area of rectangles, triangles and circles; the volume of cuboids and the volume of a prism.
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