Section outline

  • Kia ora 10C2

    TERM 1    WEEK 3


    Success Criteria: I can/have...

    • Round a number to a given significant figure
    • Confidently convert between ordinary and standard form
    • Find power and roots of numbers


    Activities:

    1. Warm up - Weekly revision task
    2. Explanation of skills and concepts (rounding to a significant figure, powers and roots of numbers) with examples (Whole class, group or individual teaching as required)
    3. Rounding to significant numbers video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0amVzMKFo
    4. Online practice for rounding to significant figures -  https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/Rounding.asp?Level=4
    5. Standard form/scientific notation - A way to write very large and very small numbers(Science integration - size of single celled organisms - bacteria, fungi, paramecium, viruses etc sizes of celestial bodies, planets, sun, galaxies etc)
    6. Video - Converting to and from standard form - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceneATH5EZ8
    7. Find out the economic cost of damage from the 2023 floods, Economic cost of covid 19 recovery plan and convert it into standard form. Economic cost of covid 19 recovery plan (context)
    8. Powers and roots - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4zejSI8zho
    9. Practice questions 
    10. Extension - Contextual applications (Differentiation)



    Homework:

    Maths Buddy (Differentiation)


    EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

    • We are EXPLORING rounding numbers to a certain number of significant figures
    • We are EXPLORING the concept of powers and roots
    • We are EXPLORING analysing and writing very large/small numbers using standard form/Scientific notation.