Read the story. Talk through the numbers.

Kids do best when you do the math together.

How Many Burgers Could Fit Inside Earth?

How Many Burgers Could Fit Inside Earth?

Our Earth is a really, really big ball - it's 8,000 miles wide. So how many cheeseburgers could we fit inside Earth if it were hollow? Balls work a lot like cubes: if a perfect cube is 2 times as wide as another, the bigger cube takes up 2 x 2 x 2 or *8* times as much space. Balls work the same way. We could count each burger as a 4-inch wide ball, and we know Earth is an 8,000-mile wide ball...let's find out how many we can smush in there!
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