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Scientific Notation - Explained! Instructional VideoScientific Notation - Explained! Instructional Video
Publisher
Veritasium
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
Instructional Videos
Media Length
5:13
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Duration
10 mins
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2011
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Scientific Notation - Explained!

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Scientists use very large and very small numbers when measuring things. A Veritasium video explains how scientific notation simplifies these numbers. It offers examples of how to convert such numbers into scientific notation—and from scientific notation to standard notation.

3 Views 3 Downloads
CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

scientific notation, powers of 10

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Create a worksheet to practice using scientific notation
  • Challenge scholars to come up with other measurements that are so large or so small that notation would be beneficial

Classroom Considerations

  • Relies on prior knowledge of exponents, multiplication, and division
  • This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

  • Provides closed captioning for ELLs
  • Ends with a challenge question and a link to learn the answer

Cons

  • None

Common Core

SL.6.2 SL.7.2 SL.8.2 SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2 RST.6-8.4 RST.9-10.4 RST.11-12.4

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