Monday, September 29, 2008

Exponents and Scientific notation

I am going to teach you about exponents. The reason you have exponents is because when you have big numbers you can use these to break it down to make it easier. For example:Instead of writing 6*6*6*6*6*6*6 you can just say six to the seventh power or 67. The 6 is called the base and the 7 is called the exponent. You might think this is pointless but in life you will use this to do different things like if someone was trying to figure out how many stars are in the sky instead of saying their are 100 billion billion or you can just say 1020.



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5 comments:

oroarkclass said...

Great job explaining how to do exponents and describing the vocabulary. Your link didn't go to a page that was related to the topic. Make sure that you post the entire URL. It would also be nice if you could find actual information for your application.

Taylor said...

haha.rachel i got a good job!

Taylor said...

i thought i was gonna gett! well..... haha cya tommrow!

Taylor said...

okk. i was looking at everyones blogs. and i began with zach's not the small one. haha. ok and mr.oroark gave him his score. and zach wrote back wow your mean oroark

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