Evelyn's fake Wikipedia on scientific notation created for Ms. Lambert's class in June 2011.

1. Scientific Notation
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Scientific notation is a method
scientific notation is used to
express very large or very small
numbers in a compact form that
is easy to use in computations.
Born: Feb 2, 2007 (2.22007 x 105)
Died: Can’t
In scientific notation, you move the Occupation: A form of writing
decimal place until you have a numbers as the product of a
number between 1 and 10. Then power of 10
multiply it by a power of 10 that Known for: standard form or as
shows how many times the decimal exponential notation, is a way of
was moved. writing numbers that
accommodates values too large
or small to be

2. Use a calculator … or your mind… for Scientific Notation?!