This task can be used as an activity and/or assessment. It is great for formal or informal observations. During this engaging task, students will be converting numbers in scientific notation into standard notation, converting numbers in standard notation into scientific notation, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing scientific notation. In addition, there is a writing piece where students must explain their thinking and some of the strategies they used to answer the questions about scientific notation.

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7 pages

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Teaching Duration

45 minutes

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CCSS8.EE.A.4

Perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems where both decimal and scientific notation are used. Use scientific notation and choose units of appropriate size for measurements of very large or very small quantities (e.g., use millimeters per year for seafloor spreading). Interpret scientific notation that has been generated by technology.

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