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

  1. 1How do exponent laws simplify the representation of massive or microscopic quantities?
  2. 2Why does any non zero base raised to the power of zero equal one?
  3. 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

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