Standard Form to Scientific Notation Day 41 Learning Target: Students can convert numbers from standard form into scientific notation.

What is scientific Notation? Scientific notation is a way of expressing really big numbers or really small numbers. It is most often used in “scientific” calculations where the analysis must be very precise.

Why use scientific notation? For very large and very small numbers, these numbers can be converted into scientific notation to express them in a more concise form. Numbers expressed in scientific notation can be used in a computation with far greater ease.

Let’s compare the two… STANDARD FORM 9,200,000,000,000, ,000,000, SCIENTIFIC NOTATION 9.2 x x x x 10 -5

1.An ordinary quarter contains about 97,700,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms. 2.The average size of an atom is about centimeters across. These very long numbers are written in **STANDARD FORM** **The length of these numbers in standard notation makes them awkward to work with. Scientific notation is a shorthand way of writing numbers – instead of standard notation.

82,000,000 Standard Form Scientific Notation 82,000, Find a number bigger than 1, less than 10 a.Only 2 decimal places b.This is your NEW decimal 2. Multiply by 10 ( x 10) 3. Count decimal spaces from NEW to OLD (this is your exponent on 10) 4. LEFT = NEGATIVE RIGHT = POSITIVE (exponent) x Spaces (8.2 x 10 7 ) (8.2 x 10 7 ) 4. Right

97,700,000,000,000,000,000,000 In scientific notation the number of atoms in a quarter (97,700,000,000,000,000,000,000 ) is 9.77  and the size of each atom ( ) is 3.0  10 –8 3.0  10 –8 centimeters across.

Think: The decimal needs to move left to change 7.09 to , so the exponent will be negative Move the decimal to get a number between 1 and  10 Set up in scientific notation. Check 7.09  10 –3 = 7.09  = Write in scientific notation written in scientific notation is 7.09  10 –3. Example 1: (*you want only one number behind the decimal) Think: The decimal needs to move 3 places

A pencil is 18.7 cm long. If you were to lay 10,000 pencils end-to-end, how many millimeters long would they be? Write the answer in scientific notation. 187 mm  10,000 1 cm = 10 mm 18.7 cm = 187 mm Multiply by 10 1,870,000 mm Find the total length. Multiply Example 2: Hint: 1.Convert from cm to mm 2.Find the length of 10,000 pencils K H D M D C M

In scientific notation the 10,000 pencils would be 1.87  10 6 mm long, laid end-to-end. Set up scientific notation. Example 3 continued: 1,870,000 mm

Remember… If the original number was less than 1, then the exponent is negative. If the original number was greater than 1, then the exponent is positive.

Example 4 Given: 289,800,000 Use: (moved 8 places) Answer: x 10 8

Example 5 Given: Use: 5.67 (moved 4 places) Answer: 5.67 x 10 -4