Cheetahs are big cats covered with cool-looking spots. So how many spots do they have? Scientists have tried to guess, but one said 456 spots, while another said between 2,000 and 3.000. So we at Bedtime Math tried counting spots on a picture of a cheetah. We counted 460 on one side, which would be 920 for the whole cat. Here's a trick for counting lots of things: count the number in one little chunk, then guess how many of those chunks cover the whole area!