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Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, (born c. 780 —died c. 850), Muslim mathematician and astronomer whose major works introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concepts of algebra into European mathematics is also created with the first use of standard form.

STANDARD FORM

How many grains of sand would fill the universe?

Key questions

  1. Can we write large numbers in standard form?

  2. Can we write small numbers in standard form?

  3. Can we calculate with numbers in standard form?

  4. Can we use our calculators effectively?

4 lessons

Specification detail

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Literacy

  • stories that set a frame or background

  • stories that accompany or intertwine

  • stories that introduce

  • stories that explain

  • stories that ask a question

  • stories that entertain

The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensburger

A 100 billion trillion stars

al-Khwarizmi

Introduce...

Title - Key questions

a question of scale - small - 2

odd one out - 1, 2

scientific notation practice - 2

decode the joke - 1,2 

a question of scale - large - 1

Develop...

Title - Key questions

standard form N4 - 1,2

scientific notation - 1,2

standard form calculations - 3,4

practical standard form - 3,4

maths4everyone standard form - 1,2,3

large and small - 1,2,3,4

calculations with standard form - 3,4

area and perimeter with standard form - 3,4

hairy thoughts - 3,4

calcs without calc bad joke - 3

standard form 2 - 1,2

standard form 3 - 1,2

codebreaker - 1,2

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