Scientific Notation

What is scientific notation?

• A long way to write really short  numbers
• A short way to write really long numbers
• I don't know...
• None of the above

Scientific Notation is made up of two number parts. The second part is a power of base 10.

• True
• False

When writing a number in scientific notation, the first number must be greater than 1, but less than 10.

• False
• True

The rule of scientific notation is to write all exponents with a base of ____.

• 50
• 5
• 100
• 10

UNDERSTANDING
If the exponent is a positive number...

• you will get a large number
• you will get a smaller number

UNDERSTANDING
If the exponent is a negative number...

• you will get a large number
• you will get a small number

Write in standard form: 
8 x 10⁴

• 8,000
• 80,000
• .00008

How would you write 4.3756 x 10⁴ in standard form?

• 437,560,000
• 0.00043756
• 43,756
• 4,3756

Which number is correctly written in scientific notation?

• 5.67 x 10⁵
• 56.7 x 10³
• 0.567 x 10⁶

Write in scientific notation: 
0.0000378 

• 3.78 x 10^-5
• 3.78 x 10^-6
• 0.378 x 10^-5