Your House, Made of Lego

Your House, Made of Lego

How much Lego would you need to build your own house? A company made an online calculator to  figure that out. You type in your house square-foot area and the number of floors...and it calculates how many 8-peg bricks you'll need! A Lego brick is about 1/4 inch thick/tall, 5/8 inch wide, and 1 1/4 in long. Meanwhile, a *real* clay brick is 2 1/4 x 4 x 8 inches. So you need 9 x 6.4 x 6.4 Lego bricks for each real one, or about 367. The real question is, can we also build a working toilet?

Read the story. Talk through the numbers. Kids do best when you do the math together!

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