PBS
Pbs: Scientific Notation
This animated Math Shorts video from UEN explains the term scientific notation and provides several examples in converting extreme numbers to and from scientific notation. It also demonstrates how to multiply numbers using scientific...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Scientific Notation
Get independent practice working with scientific and standard notation. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: String Scientific Notation/metric System Demonstration
An activity where students must order cards labeled with scientific notation on a number line. The purpose is to ensure that they comprehend how raising the power of ten even by one has a very big effect on the value.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Scientific Notation
This StudyCards set demonstrates need for scientific notation, using real-world examples. Includes guided activity promoting proper form.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Scientific Notation
Students will write numbers in standard form and in scientific notation. Students will apply basic operations to both forms.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Scientific Notation
Dealing with very small or very large numbers can be tedious. Scientific notation helps simplify the process and this tutorial teaches students scientific notation with multiple examples, practice problems, calculator tips, and two...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Notations and Measures
This chart is a guide to scientific notation, calendar notation, and other common measures.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Powers of 10
Together with the video, Powers of Ten, this activity provides a quick lesson on using scientific notation as a tool to simplify some of the massive and minuscule numbers you'll encounter when looking at things on the extreme ends of a...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Fundamental Topics in Science App
This App provides information and activities to help students explore and understand topics in Science such as significant figures, precision and accuracy, scientific notation, and the scientific method.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator Usa Money in Circulation
Students will determine the approximate number of $20 bills in circulation as of December 31, 2001, using percent and total number of bills from the USA TODAY Snapshot "USA money in circulation." Students will write their answers in...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Unit Conversions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] By engaging in this activity, students will be able to perform unit conversions and properly use scientific notation.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Light Years Away
In this activity, students develop models for a light year and compare numbers written in scientific notation and in standard notation.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Large and Small Number Game
This activity gives students an opportunity to see where large and small numbers are used and how scientific notation offers a convenient method of writing such numbers.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Keeping Up With Trash
In this activity, students use scientific notation in finding answers to real-life problems.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today the New Color of Money
The USA TODAY Snapshot allows students to use scientific notation with real-life data. Students will work with large numbers when determining the height of a stack of $20 bills. Unit conversion will be used from one unit of measure to...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Math Space Odyssey: The Capacity of the Planets
Use this activity to teach students to represent numbers in scientific notation, and use geometry to solve problems related to three-dimensional figures. Explore distance and capacity problems about planets in the solar system. The...
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Notacion Cientifica
In Spanish. Interactive activities to learn and practice scientific notations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Middle School Math 8 for Ccss
A complete CCSS Grade 8 Mathematics course that includes interactives in every lesson, plus videos, hands-on activities, and questions with immediate feedback. Every lesson also has specifically chosen 'Related Modalities' that teach the...
Lawrence Hall of Science
The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: Multiplying and Dividing by Powers of 10: The Meaning of Percent
This excellent math resource explains and defines the meaning of percent. Multiplying and dividing by a power of 10 is incorporated as a preview to understanding scientific notation.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Air Pollution in the Pacific Northwest
Students are introduced to measuring and identifying sources of air pollution, as well as how environmental engineers try to control and limit the amount of air pollution. In Part 1, students are introduced to nitrogen dioxide as an air...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Power Company
In this activity, students explore the limits on powers that can be displayed without scientific notation. They look for patterns in the powers.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math a Review 1
This StudyCards stack enables students to review concepts in algebra, arithmetic, and geometry, in preparation for the Math A Exam held in New York. They solve problems involving scientific notation, factoring, linear equations, rate of...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Decimal Defender App
This App helps students practice multiplication and division with decimals in a fun environment. Students use this App to learn standard multiplication and division algorithms as well as understand topics such as scientific notation, the...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Make Your Own Powers of Ten
Watch Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of Ten video, and then create a similar project while exploring scale.