Newly Released Scientific Notation Activity
There are things in life that science teachers and math teachers disagree on. Is 0.1 equal to 0.10? Do all numbers require units? Is a ratio different from a rate?
But there is one thing that math and science teachers can always agree on—teaching scientific notation is a strangely difficult thing to do.
Desmos isn’t here to tell you that we’ve solved this problem, but we are here to tell you that we’ve built a thing that makes this difficult thing a bit more fun.