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Very large and very small numbers

Scientific notation, or standard form, is used to represent very large and very small numbers in a convenient manner.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 9
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Content knowledge, Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Explicit teaching
Keywords	Scientific notation, Power, Index number
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy
Strand and focus	Measurement
Topics	Using units of measurement
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M9M02 Solve problems involving very small and very large measurements, time scales and intervals expressed in scientific notation
Numeracy progression	Multiplicative strategies (P10) Measuring time (P7) Number and place value (P10)
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