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Matthew Cowen's Online Math Portfolio
8.EE.3 : Use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other.
What surprised you while watching the video?
I was surprised by how quickly the field of view got larger and smaller in the video.
What do you wonder after watching the video?
Why did they zoom into the inside of the mans hand, because really, you should continue to see the outside because it is exponential.
Each time the exponent on ten goes up one value, the distance changes by _______
10X
In the video one carbon atom was 10^-10 meters wide and the carbon nucleus is 10^-14 meters wide. How many times bigger is the entire atom compared to its nucleus?
10^-4 times bigger.
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