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Very large and very small numbers
Scientific notation, or standard form, is used to represent very large and very small numbers in a convenient manner.
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| Year level(s) | Year 9 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Content knowledge, Teaching resource, Student task |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching |
| Keywords | Scientific notation, Power, Index number |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Measurement |
| Topics | Using units of measurement |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M9M02
Solve problems involving very small and very large measurements, time scales and intervals expressed in scientific notation |
| Numeracy progression |
Multiplicative strategies (P10)
Measuring time (P7) Number and place value (P10) |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | AMSI |
| Copyright | © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0. |
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