Standard Form Summary

Standard Form

Summary

scientists and mathematicians use standard form as a way of writing very large or very small numbers without using lots of zeros.

numbers written in standard form are shown in two parts, the first part as a number between 1 and 10 and the second part as a power of 10.

 

Key Skills
  • write any number in standard form
  • write a number in standard form as an ordinary decimal number
  • use a calculator to do calculations involving powers of ten

Vocabulary

power, exponent, index, standard form