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Math Drills

Math Drills: Powers of Ten Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Download these free worksheets to sharpen your skills working with powers of ten. Sheets focus on whole numbers and decimals in comma/point and point/comma formats and are in both standard form and exponent form.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Multiplication and Division With Powers of Ten

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice solving multiplication and division problems that involve powers of ten. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Powers of Ten

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this exercise, students practice using powers of ten. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Mental Math to Divide by Decimal Powers of Ten

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use mental math to divide by decimal powers of ten and find a quotient.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Mental Math to Divide by Whole Number Powers of Ten

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use mental math to divide by whole number powers of ten.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Arithmetic: Mental Math to Multiply by Decimal Powers of Ten

For Students 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use mental math to multiply by decimal powers of ten.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Mental Math to Multiply by Whole Number Powers of Ten

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use mental math to multiply by whole number powers of ten and find a product.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Make Your Own Powers of Ten

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Watch Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of Ten video, and then create a similar project while exploring scale.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Powers of Ten

For Students 4th - 6th
Practice evaluating powers of ten. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Power of Ten

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
This website from The Math Page explains and defines basic arithmetic terms and place value concepts. There is even a practice section at the very end of the lesson.
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Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Patterning the Powers of 10

For Students 6th - 8th
This interactive Learn Alberta math resource offers a hands-on exploration of positive and negative exponents. In particular, students will work on completing patterns of base 10 exponents in a variety of forms, then look at these in the...
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Optical Society

Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Perspectives: Powers of 10

For Students 9th - 10th
A drawing and measuring activity to give students an appreciation of magnitude in powers of ten, and of microscopes. Students draw themselves and an object life-size, and then examine smaller and smaller pieces of their picture.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Dividing Decimals by Powers of Ten

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This chart was designed to go in tandem with a lesson on multiplying decimals by powers of ten. It uses a dog named Decimal and you take him for a walk. Activotes assess comfort and understanding of...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Multiplying Decimals by a Power of Ten

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson uses a dog named Decimal to introduce the concept of moving the decimal point to simplify multiplying a decimal by a power of ten. It uses Activotes to check for understanding of the concept.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

University of Waterloo: Powerama 6 D

For Students 2nd - 8th
In this game, you simply divide the two numbers. All exercises are division by 10, 100, 1000, or 10,000, so students can learn quick mental methods of division by powers of ten. The game presents 100 exercises, so students get plenty of...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Multiply and Divide by Powers of 10

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Practice multiplying and dividing by powers of 10. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Powers of 10

For Students 9th - 10th
Together with the video, Powers of Ten, this activity provides a quick lesson on using scientific notation as a tool to simplify some of the massive and minuscule numbers you'll encounter when looking at things on the extreme ends of a...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics I: Appendices: Useful Information

For Students 11th - 12th
This page provides eight tables of useful information such as Important Constants, Submicroscopic Masses, Solar System Data, Metric Prefixes for Powers of Ten and Their Symbols, The Greek Alphabet, SI units, Useful Formulae, and other...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: "Power"ful Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
For this activity, students investigate the relationship between multiplication with repeated factors and the use of exponents. Students will connect "powers of ten" to place value positions.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

University of Waterloo: Powerama 6 M

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students can practice multiplying by powers of ten in this quick-fire math drill. 120 exercises are presented, in which students must perform the multiplication. All exercises are some number multiplied by 10, 100, 1000, or 10,000.
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Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Multiplying and Dividing by Powers of 10: The Meaning of Percent

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This excellent math resource explains and defines the meaning of percent. Multiplying and dividing by a power of 10 is incorporated as a preview to understanding scientific notation.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Approximating With Powers of 10

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Practice comparing two real-world quantities by approximating them using rounding and powers of 10. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video, or receive hints.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Powers of 10

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of the positive and negative exponents of the powers of 10. A table of examples are given and clearly explained.
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Powers of Ten

For Students 9th - 10th
This webpage from the Florida State University offers an applet with succeeding images, each "10 times bigger or smaller than the one preceding or following it," as a demonstration of exponential notation.