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Understanding Standard Form Calculations

This document provides instructions for using a starter tool to explore standard form numbers between 1 and 10 or whole numbers that can be negative. It encourages clicking on a purple globe for a link to the starter. Numbers in standard form allow very small or very large numbers to be written concisely and compared more easily.

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Understanding Standard Form Calculations

This document provides instructions for using a starter tool to explore standard form numbers between 1 and 10 or whole numbers that can be negative. It encourages clicking on a purple globe for a link to the starter. Numbers in standard form allow very small or very large numbers to be written concisely and compared more easily.

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tarter

Watch the starter and think about how big and small the numbers get!

Click on purple globe for link to the stater


Explore 1
Standard Form
Standard Form

• To write numbers in standard form

• To calculate with numbers in standard form

• To use a calculator in standard form calculations

Standard Form

Standard Form Calculator Multiply Divide


Power of 10
• Vote for the answer using the poll

Remember:
The mass of the Earth is 5.98 x 1024 kg

5
What could the following measurement
be?

a) Mass of Jupiter
b) Mass of the moon
c) Distance from the Shire to Mount
Dooms

7.35 x 10 22
Mass of the moon (kg)
What could the following measurement
be?

a) Mass of Jupiter
b) Speed of sound
c) Distance from Earth to the Sun

1.88 × 10 27

Mass of Jupiter (kg)


What could the following measurement
be?

a) Weight of a hydrogen atom


b) Width of a human hair
c) Weight of an ant

3 x 10 -7

Weight of an ant (kg)


What could the following measurement
be?

a) Height of the Eiffel Tower


b) Height of Big Ben’s Tower
c) Youtube views of Gangnam Style

9.6 x 10 1

Height of Big Ben’s Tower (metres)


What could the following measurement
be?

a) Weight of a chicken
b) Width of a school building
c) Top speed of Usain Bolt

1.22 x 10 1

Top Speed of Usain


Bolt (m/s)
What could the following measurement
be?

a) Weight of a blood cell


b) Width of a pixel in an iphone 5
c) Weight of a hydrogen atom

1.59 x 10 -4

Width of a pixel in an
iphone 5 (metres)
What could the following measurement
be?

a) Youtube views of Gangnam Style


b) Number of Coronation Street viewers
c) Deepest point in the ocean

1.34 x 10 9

Number of
youtube views
Standard
Standard FormForm

A number between 1 and 10 Any whole number


(excluding 10) (can be negative)

𝑎 ×10 𝑏
 

Standard Form is useful for two reasons:


1. It allows us to write really small or really big numbers
concisely...
2. It allows us to compare small and big numbers.
Which is bigger?! Which is bigger? 

234000000000000 23400000000000 2.34 x 1014 2.34 x 1013
esting your knowledge
Your teacher will set up a poll A B C
Vote for the answer you think is correct!

200,000,000 20 x107 2 x108 2 x


107

32,000 3.2x 104 32 x103 3.2


x 105

9 9 x 
10-1 9 x100 9 x
101

0.0001 1 x 
10-3 1 x10-4 1 x
10-5

0.012 1.2 
x 10-4 12 x10-3 1.2 
x 10-2
Try these in your maths books.
Express in standard form. Express as a normal number.

 300  3 x 102
5,100 4.71 x 103
72,040.4 2.401 x 105
119,988.7 7.42 x 106
6,320,110 1.1111 x 103
8,108,136 1.5 x 10-1
77,012 3.01 x 10-4
1.72 9.89 x 10-6
34.7 3.456 x 10-7
0.001 1.234 x 10-1
0.00034
0.9
0.801
0.01087
0.00009
0.00008632
0.11
Answers
Express in standard form. Express as a normal number.

 300  3 x 102
5,100 4.71 x 103
72,040.4 2.401 x 105
119,988.7 7.42 x 106
6,320,110 1.1111 x 103
8,108,136 1.5 x 10-1
77,012 3.01 x 10-4
1.72 9.89 x 10-6
34.7 3.456 x 10-7
0.001 1.234 x 10-1
0.00034
0.9
0.801
0.01087
0.00009
0.00008632
0.11
Standard form

By the end of this week’s lessons you should be able to:


1. To write numbers in standard form
2. To calculate with numbers in standard form
3. To use a calculator in standard form calculations

17
LESSON COMPLETE!

SEE YOU NEXT LESSON


Explore 2
Standard Form
Standard Form

• To write numbers in standard form

• To calculate with numbers in standard form

• To use a calculator in standard form calculations

Standard Form

Standard Form Calculator Multiply Divide


Power of 10
tarter

anets

 7.8 ×108

43

21
Order these from smallest to biggest.
Work out the answer without turning them to ordinary numbers first .

2x10 3 3.3x10 2 4.5x10 7 3.3x10 2 4.2x10 3 4.5x10 7

9x10 7 4.7x10 11 6.1x10 3


6.1x10 3 3.9x10 7 4.7x10 11

8x10 4 6.7x10 1 3.82x10 5 2.7x10 3 6.7x10 1 2.7x10 3 4.8x10 4 3.82x10

9x10 - 3 4.7x10 2 5.8x10 - 7


5.8x10 -7 5.9x10 -3 4.7x10

4x10 2 4.57x10 - 8 5.78x10 7 6.54x10 - 3 4.57x10 -8 6.54x10 -3 3.4x10 2 5.78x10


Try these using the standard form key on a calculator
Standard form

By the end of this week’s lessons you should be able to:


1. To write numbers in standard form
2. To calculate with numbers in standard form
3. To use a calculator in standard form calculations

25
LESSON COMPLETE!

SEE YOU NEXT LESSON

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