The beauty of the very very big and the very very small – Standard form

Scale of the Universe is one of the nicest websites I think I have ever seen. It’s fascinating in its own right, but is also a nice resource for looking at very small and very big numbers.

I put together this sheet to use with students to give them some tasks to do whilst playing with the site. The idea is that it gets them used to using standard form numbers and demonstrates why it is actually useful and better than writing all those zeros!