Scientists and engineers in every field use scientific notation. The Socratica video explains what scientific notation is and why people use it. Then, it offers examples of how to convert a number into and out of scientific notation. Next, it details how to calculate problems using scientific notation, and it ends with how to use scientific notation in a graphing calculator.

Concepts

scientific notation, significant figures, coefficients, exponents, decimals

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Create practice problems for students to solve independently after watching the video

Classroom Considerations

• Relies on prior knowledge of significant digits
• Background music may distract some pupils

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Provides closed captioning for the hearing impaired
• Includes many guided practice problems throughout the video

Cons

• None

Common Core

8.EE.A.4 RST.6-8.4 RST.9-10.4 RST.11-12.4