Lesson on 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

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CCSS.8.EE.A.3

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

• True
• False

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CCSS.8.EE.A.3

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

• False
• True

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CCSS.8.EE.A.3

Scientific Notation is made up of two number parts. The first part should be a number between 1 and 100.

• True
• False

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CCSS.8.EE.A.3

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

• 50
• 5
• 100
• 10

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CCSS.8.EE.A.3

UNDERSTANDING
If the exponent is a positive number...

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

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CCSS.6.EE.A.1

UNDERSTANDING
If the exponent is a negative number...

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

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CCSS.8.EE.A.3

ANY number raised to a power of 0 will be....

• 10
• itself
• 1
• 0

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CCSS.8.EE.A.1

What is it called when you go from this form to this next form?
0.0088 to 8.8 x 10³

• Standard form to scientific notation
• Scientific notation to regular form
• Scientific notation to standard form
• Standard form to regular form

When your exponent is negative, you move your decimal....

• to the right
• to the left
• to both sides
• nowhere.... the decimal goes nowhere

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CCSS.8.EE.A.3