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Introduction to scientific notation

In this series of lessons, students are introduced to the concept of expressing numbers in standard or scientific form. They go on to explore how to operate with and problem-solve numbers in scientific form.

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Year level(s)	Year 9
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Student task, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Explicit teaching
Keywords	Scientific notation, Power, Index number
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy, Critical and creative thinking
Strand and focus	Measurement
Topics	Using units of measurement, Time, Indices
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M9M02 Solve problems involving very small and very large measurements, time scales and intervals expressed in scientific notation AC9M9M03 Solve spatial problems, applying angle properties, scale, similarity, Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry in right-angled triangles
Numeracy progression	Multiplicative strategies (P10) Measuring time (P7) Number and place value (P10) Proportional thinking (P7) Understanding geometric properties (P7) Understanding units of measurement (P10)
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