A clever way to estimate enormous numbers - Michael Mitchell
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Have you ever tried to guess how many pieces of candy there are in a jar? Or tackled a mindbender like: “How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?” Physicist Enrico Fermi was very good at problems like these — learn how he used the power of 10 to make amazingly fast estimations of big numbers.
20 September 2012 Edit: 23 February 2014
- Topics:
- Number, Estimation, Scientific Notation
- The Australian Curriculum
- Number and Algebra, Real numbers, ACMNA210 Year 9 Express numbers in scientific notation
- The Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 New
- Year 9, Measurement Year 9, AC9M9M02 solve problems involving very small and very large measurements, time scales and intervals
- NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus
- Number and Algebra, MA5.1-5NA Indices, Measurement and Geometry, MA5.1-9MG Numbers of Any Magnitude
- NSW Curriculum New
- Number and algebra, Indices, MA5-IND-C-01 Indices A, Measurement and space, MA5-MAG-C-01 Numbers of any magnitude
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