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Measurements and Significant Figures
Are your lab results both accurate and precise? An interesting video lesson explains the difference between the two descriptions. Using error and percent error measurements, these descriptions become concrete and in turn leads to a...
Crash Course
Deep Time
Are our universe's days numbered? Yes and no, depending on how you look at it. Travel as far into the future as possible in a video describing the five ages of the universe. The narrator begins the tale in current days, which are the...
Krista King Math
How to Estimate HUGE Numbers Using Scientific Notation!
Large numbers don't have to be a drag to work with. The video shows viewers how to estimate a large product of numbers. This involves first converting the numbers to scientific notation and then applying multiplication.
Crash Course
Unit Conversion and Significant Figures
Science is full of big numbers, each of which can be several digits long. Learn how to determine the appropriate amount of numbers to display in answers as well as how to shorten those big numbers down to only a few and still display the...
Ricochet Science
Scientific Notation and Powers of 10
What do all those measurement prefixes mean? Viewers learn how metric prefixes represent measurement values in the 10th installment of an 11-part Math in Science video series. They then learn how to use powers...
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Chemistry Lesson: Significant Digits and Calculations
How d you apply significant digits when solving problems? You check out this video that includes many examples that are worked out for scholars. A worksheet is also provided for individual practice. Answers can be found on another...
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Chemistry Lesson: Significant Digits and Rounding
Here's a riddle for you: You cannot see me, but I can change your answer. What am I? The first insignificant digit when rounding. This brief video provides a great explanation and guided example problems for practicing combining rounding...
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Chemistry Lesson: Significant Digits and Measurements
Why are some digits of a number more important than others? This video explains significant digits and offers examples for use in measurement and guided practice. A worksheet is provided with a video explanation of all answers.
Curated OER
How Do You Multiply Two Numbers Using Scientific Notation?
Numbers with lots of zeros, lots and lots of zeros. Decimal points to the left and decimal points to the right. Now multiply these numbers. Daunting. There's a shorter way to do it, use scientific notation. The teacher demonstrates just...
Curated OER
How Do You Convert From Decimal Notation to Scientific Notation?
The instructor demonstrates how to convert a number written in decimal form to scientific notation. An example is given for a number with a positive exponent and an example is given for a number with a negative exponent.
Curated OER
How Do You Convert From Scientific Notation to Decimal Notation?
The instructor demonstrates how to convert a number written in scientific notation to a decimal number. An example is given for a number with a positive exponent, and an example is given for a number with a negative exponent.
Krista King Math
How to Write Small and Big Numbers in Scientific Notation
Now you don't have to write all those zeros. Viewers of this video learn how to write large and small numbers in scientific notation. The video covers two examples for each type.
Krista King Math
How to Easily Divide Scientific Notation
Dividing with scientific notation made easy. In the video, scholars see how to use scientific notation to divide numbers. Along the way, they learn how to identify and convert values in scientific notation.
Curated OER
How Do You Convert From Decimal Notation to Scientific Notation?
The instructor demonstrates how to convert a number written in decimal form to scientific notation. An example is given for a number with a positive exponent and an example is given for a number with a negative exponent.
Curated OER
How Do You Convert From Scientific Notation to Decimal Notation?
The instructor demonstrates how to convert a number written in scientific notation to a decimal number. An example is given for a number with a positive exponent, and an example is given for a number with a negative exponent.
Curated OER
What's Scientific Notation?
The instructor clarifies how to write numbers in scientific notation. There are a couple of criteria that must be followed in order to be able to write either a very small number, or a very large number, with lots of zeros, in scientific...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: The Power of Exponentials, Big and Small
Through this video lesson, students compare exponential growth to polynomial growth and discover how quickly the number can grow or decay in exponentials.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Scientific Notation: Lesson 7
This group of lessons introduces the use of scientific notation to express very large and very small values. This lesson is 7 of 18 in the series titled "Scientific Notation."
Tyler DeWitt, PhD
Tyler De Witt: Converting Between Moles, Atoms, and Molecules
How many atoms in 5.5 moles? How many moles is 4.6 x 10^24 sulfur atoms? In this video Tyler DeWitt helps you solve problems like these--converting back and forth between moles and the number of atoms or molecules. DeWitt will use both a...
Tyler DeWitt, PhD
Tyler De Witt: Converting Between Moles, Atoms and Molecules Part 2
In this video viewers will do more practice problems, converting between moles, atoms, and molecules. This is the second part of the video. [6:58]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Algebra: Multiplying in Scientific Notation
Video showing how to multiply three numbers written in scientific notation. [7:35]
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Khan Academy: Algebra: Scientific Notation 3 (New)
Video solving a rate problem where the numbers are in scientific notation and need to be multiplied. Includes conversion of units. [4:27]
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Khan Academy: Algebra: Scientific Notation 3
Video solving an application problem where numbers in scientific notation need to be divided. Includes link to additional practice at the top of the video. [6:21]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Algebra: Scientific Notation Example 2
Video multiplying two numbers in scientific notation. Includes brief review of what scientific notation is and a link to additional practice. [5:23]