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Scientific Notation
Lesson objectives Teachers' notes
1) Students will write numbers in scientific notation.
2) Students will write numbers in standard form.
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Teachers' notesLesson objectives
Standards: • MCC8.EE.3 Use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other. For example,
estimate the population of the United States as 3 × 108 and the population of the world as 7 × 109, and determine that the world population is more than 20 times
larger.
• MCC8.EE.4 Perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems where both decimal and scientific notation are used. Use scientific notation and choose units of appropriate size for measurements of very large or very small quantities (e.g., use millimeters per year for seafloor spreading). Interpret scientific notation that has been generated by technology.
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How far do you think the planet Pluto is from the sun?
Make a guess and write it down on a piece of paper.
Pull
Pull Earth is about
93,000,000 miles from the Sun
Hint
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Pluto is about 39 times as far from the Sun as Earth is.
Write this number down 15 times on your paper.
Just Kidding!
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revealPull
Pull
Answ
er Pluto is about 3,647,000,000 miles from the Sun
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Want to change your guess???
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Scientists study these big numbers all the time.
They don't like writing big numbers either!
So, they use ...
Pull
Pull Imagine how easy
it would be to make a mistake
Scientific NotationClick to reveal
The 8 million dollar mistake
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Scientific Notation a shorter way to write a big number
(Write this down!!!)
a x 10n
a is a numberbetween 1 and 10
n tells how manyplaces you moved the decimal
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3,647,000,000 right now, the decimal is here
(write everything on this page down)
Move the decimal to form a number between 1 and 10
3,647,000,000
*move 9 places to the left
*forms the number 3.647 which is between 1 and 10
3.647 x 109
Write each number using scientific notation.
Click to reveal
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Write using scientific notation.
5.6 x 1013
56,000,000,000,000
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Write using scientific notation.
2.305 x 1012
2,305,000,000,000
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Scientists also use scientific notation for really, really, small numbers.
*Still need to move the decimal to form a number between 1 and 10
Write in scientific notation.
.00000173
6 places to the right
1.73 x 10 6
*Exponent is negative when decimal moves to the right, or original number is smaller
(Write the rest of this page down)
.00000173
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Write in scientific notation.
5.02 x 10 7
.000000502
Click to reveal
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Can you work backwards???
Write in standard form.
3.78 x 106 positive exponent will make number get bigger
3.78move decimal right 6 places00 00slide
3,780,000Click to reveal
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Write in standard form.
1.0654 x 10 7
1.0654000000
number will get smaller since exponent is negative
move 7 places to the leftSlide
.00000010654Click to reveal
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Sort the given values. Written in proper scientific notation
Not written in proper scientific notation
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Scientific notation is used to write really big numbers.
123,000,000,000
45,000,000
67,800,000,000,000
9,000
Move the star to count the number of decimal places.
The amount of moves will give you the exponent value.
decimal notation scientific notation
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Scientific notation is used to write really big numbers.
7.82 x 10
3.04 x 10
5 x 10
6.2103 x 10
The exponent tells you how many decimal places you need to move.
decimal notationscientific notation
3
8
4
10
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An example of a really big number. Please write it in scientific notation.
As the planets orbit the sun, the closest Pluto gets to Earth is approximately 2,700,000,000 miles.
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An example of a really big number. Please write it in scientific notation.
The speed of light in a vacuum is approximately 186,000 miles per second.
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Scientific notation is used to write really small numbers.
0.000000034
0.0000000005609
0.000000000064
0.007Move the star to count the number of decimal places.
The amount of moves will give you the exponent value.
decimal notation scientific notation
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Scientific notation is used to write really small numbers.
4.8 x 10
1.2 x 10
9 x 10
7.1034 x 10
The exponent tells you how many decimal places you need to move.
decimal notationscientific notation
6
12
2
5
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An example of a really small number. Please write it in scientific notation.
Human fingernails grow at a rate of about 0.00286 inches per day.
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An example of a really small number. Please write it in scientific notation.
The thickness of a red blood cell is approximately 0.0003125 of an inch.
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How do you know that a number written in scientific notation will be really big or really small ?
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When do you write a negative exponent when converting to scientific notation?
When do you write a positive exponent when converting to scientific notation?
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Extra Practice
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Extra Practice
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