How many minutes old are you?

During math on Monday students practiced reading and saying large numbers by calculating their age in minutes and even seconds. Once students determined how many minutes old they were on their last birthday, they added the additional minutes from the leap years that occurred within the past eight years.

I gave the students an additional challenge to calculate how old my grandpa is in minutes. They eagerly calculated that he was 48,880,800 minutes or 2,932,848,000 seconds old!