Ontario · Grade 8
G8.B1.1
Grade 8 — Represent and compare very large and very small numbers, including through the use of scientific notation, and describe various ways they are used in everyday life.
The skill that covers it
What a student should be able to do
- Convert between standard form and scientific notation, including numbers less than 1.
- Compare two numbers in scientific notation and say how many times larger one is.
- Multiply and divide numbers in scientific notation and renormalise the result.
- Estimate very large or very small quantities as a single digit times a power of ten.