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Keep count of amazing world records bylearning the word forms of large numbers

What would you do to get into the Guinness World Records book? Bryan Berg built the largest house of playing cards made without glue or

tape. He used 218,792 playing cards! We repeat: two hundred eighteen thousand, seven hundred ninety-two playing cards!

Bryan made sure he had enough cards with him before he started building. He told DynaMath. “It’s always better to have extra cards on hand instead of not enough.”

Now Bryan will be in the 2011 Guinness World Records book, out September 14.

Want to read about more record setters? Just say the word—word forms of numbers, that is!

What to DoRead Word Forms of Numbers on page 7.

Then write the word form of each number in the questions to describe a world record.

Get RealBryan Berg is an “ace” at

making houses of cards!

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1 In 2009, a restaurant in Michigan started selling a burger that weighs 186 pounds! What is the word form of 186?

2 The largest inflatable beach ball was made

in Belgium in 2009. Its volume (the amount of space inside) is 36,882 cubic feet. That’s more than 1,000 times the amount of space in a normal beach ball. Write the word form of 36,882.

3 In 2008, Canada’s Kevin Fast pulled a 126,200-pound truck more than 100 feet. What is the word form of 126,200?

4 The tallest Lego structure was built by kids in Germany in 2009. It is 98 feet, 3 inches tall. More than 500,000 blocks

are in it. What is the word form of 500,000?

5 A 122-foot-tall snowman (actually, snow woman) was built in Maine in 2008. She weighed 13,000,000 pounds! What is

the word form of 13,000,000?

supermath

This year, Kevin Fast broke yet another record. This time, Kevin pulled a plane that weighed four hundred sixteen thousand, two hundred ninety-nine pounds. How many pounds more did the plane weigh than the truck from problem 3? Write the answer in standard number form.

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Word Forms oF Numbers✔ Use a hyphen to write out two-digit numbers greater than 20.Example: Write 48 as forty-eight. ✔ If there is a comma in a numeral, put a comma in the same place in its word form. Example: Write 63,712 as sixty-three thousand, seven hundred twelve.

Web WiseWant to learn about more of the latest weird world records? Visit the links at www.scholastic.com/dynamath.

Kevin Fast slowly moves a plane.

Too much meat to eat

People had a ball setting this record!

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