Grade 4 wrapped up a world geography unit by looking at population density. Students put their countries' area and population into Excel, and we sorted and ran a formula to see how many people lived in each square mile. Then we practiced reading visual representations of data with this map:
source: wikipedia.org
Which continents are the most densely populated?
Here's a hint ... one of the cities on one of the continents is Tokyo, where the subway is so crowded that people get squished onto the train cars by professional "pushers." Here's video evidence:
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