Open Educational Resources
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Powers of Ten - Number Sense
Students (and adults) have a difficult time trying to grasp very large (and very small) numbers. This activity uses an interesting context (astronomical objects0 to stimulate their interest in modeling enormous distances in a way that can help them understand relative distances. Students naturally arrive at the need for a different kind of number scale than linear and arrive at a "power of ten" (logarithmic) scale. The lesson includes an extension for advanced students ready to begin to investigate logarithms. |
8/2/2016 |
Trey Cox
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5.NBT.A.2 6.EE.A.1 8.EE.A.1 8.EE.A.3 HSF-BF.B.5 MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.6 MP.7 MP.8 | 5 6 7 8 HS | Activity | |
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Number Sense: Getting a Feel for "BIG" numbers
Good number sense is fundamental for success in estimation, approximation, and problem solving. We need to develop a sense of large numbers because newspaper and television news reports contain many references to large quantities. This activity has students working with large numbers to understand their relative magnitudes. |
8/2/2016 |
Trey Cox
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8.EE.A.3 8.EE.A.4 7.RP.A.2 7.RP.A.1 MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 | 8 7 | Activity |
