Magnitude

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Objectives

Students know that positive powers of 10 are very large numbers, and negative powers of 10 are very small numbers.
Students know that the exponent of an expression provides information about the magnitude of a number.

Prior Knowledge

NumbersExponents

45 mins 8.EE.A.4 8.EE.A.3

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