The Power of Number and Proportion · Number Sense and Operations
The Architecture of Powers
Investigating exponent laws and scientific notation as tools for managing scale.
Key Questions
- 1How do exponent laws simplify the representation of massive or microscopic quantities?
- 2Why does any non zero base raised to the power of zero equal one?
- 3What is the relationship between repeated multiplication and the growth of physical systems?
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
ON: Number - Grade 9
Grade: Grade 9
Subject: Mathematics
Unit: The Power of Number and Proportion
Period: Number Sense and Operations
Suggested Methodologies
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