Standard Form

Mathematics SSS 1 First Term

WEEK 5

Standard Form

Performance Objectives

Students should be able to;

1. Convert numbers to standard form
2. Express decimal numbers in standard form
3. Convert long hand to shorthand notation

STANDARD FORM

Content

Standard form is a way of writing down very large or very small numbers easily. 10³ = 1000, so 4 × 10³ = 4000. So 4000 can be written as 4 × 10³. This idea can be used to write even larger numbers down easily in standard form.

Small numbers can also be written in standard form. However, instead of the index being positive (in the above example, the index was 3), it will be negative.

The rules when writing a number…