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Student Opinion Newsdesk: Numbers at Scale

Calculate with scientific notation while checking student opinion surveys, choosing useful units, and interpreting digital displays.

Grade 8MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to8.EE.A.4

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 14 questions
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Details

Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 8
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students add, subtract, multiply, and divide quantities written in scientific notation.
  • Students choose useful units for survey processing times and file sizes.
  • Students interpret scientific notation on digital displays in the context of student surveys.

How to use

Use after introducing scientific notation. Have students show calculations on scratch paper, then review how units affect the meaning of a result.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

8.EE.A.4

Calculate with numbers in scientific notation, choose sensible units, and read scientific notation produced by technology.

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Student Opinion Newsdesk: Numbers at Scale

Check survey calculations, reporting units, and digital displays.

Check the Survey Calculations

The school newspaper runs several separate student opinion surveys. Calculate each result. In scientific notation, the coefficient must be at least 1 and less than 10.

1.
The newspaper collected responses about school lunch from two groups. No student belongs to both groups.
Lunch Survey Responses
GroupResponses
Earlier lunch7.35 × 10²
Later lunch4.65 × 10²

Complete the total in scientific notation:   × 10 to the power of   responses.

2.
In a survey about study spaces, 9.1 × 10² students chose quiet rooms and 6.8 × 10² chose shared work areas. How many more students chose quiet rooms?
  • A. 2.3 × 10² students
  • B. 2.3 × 10⁴ students
  • C. 2.3 × 10⁰ students
  • D. 1.59 × 10³ students
3.
A school activities survey has 2.5 × 10¹ questions. Each of its 4.8 × 10² respondents answers every question.

Complete the total number of individual answers in scientific notation:   × 10 to the power of   answers.

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