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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Using units of measurement
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M9M02
- Numeracy progression
- Multiplicative strategies (P10) Measuring time (P7) Number and place value (P10)
- Publisher
- AMSI
- Copyright
- © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0.
- Keywords
- indices index laws
- Other terms
- scientific notation
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