![]() The project can be done individually, in groups, or as a class. Students may create their own Powers of Ten using their homes or other landmarks as center points. Identify the site you’d like to serve as the center of your Powers of Ten.Tutorial videos are also linked from this page. Watch the video of Google Earth Powers of Ten example.Watch the original Powers of Ten film.It is important for the teacher to run through the procedure prior to attempting with a class. Highlight a key big idea: To Understand (Deep) Time and the Scale of Space, Models and Maps are Necessary.Make maps more concrete for your students.Why Make a Local Version of Powers of Ten? It is, "A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero." See the film and learn more about the Charles and Ray Eames here: The film begins by joining a picnic at a Chicago waterfront park “with a scene just one meter wide, which we view from just one meter away.” Each ten seconds, the camera pulls ten times further away. Digital camera (phone cameras are fine)Ī classic science education film is Charles and Ray Eames’s Powers of Ten. ![]() Computer with Internet connection & Google Earth Pro (now free).You have the basics of exponents when we're dealing with 10, and I know what you were thinking. So 10 times 10 times 10 times 10 times 10. We're going to take five 10s and multiply them together. Up to you on the street and say what is 10 to the fifth power? What is that? What number that you're probably familiar with would this be? Well this would mean that Well as you might have imagined, we were taking 10 10s and Write it using exponents? Pause the video and figure that out. Number here, 10 billion? What's a way that we could ![]() If you ever saw 10 to the third power, that means hey, let me We would read this asġ0 to the third power. Might have imagined, we're taking a certain number of 10s and we see we're taking three 10s and we're multiplying them together. Times 10 times 10 or 1000? How would you write that using exponents? Pause this video and see So 10 to the second power is 10 times 10 is equal to 100. Some of the parts of this, the two would be called the exponent and the 10 would be the base. That looks fancy, but all that means is let's take two 10s and multiply them together and we're going to get 100. Multiplying them together, I could write this as 10 to the second power. And so 10 times 10, we can rewrite as being equal to, if I have two 10s and I'm So the way they do this is through something known as exponents. To write things like this a little bit more elegantly. So mathematicians haveĬome up with a notation and some ideas to be able Kinda hard to write, and imagine if we have 30 10s that we were multiplying together. This right over here is 10 billion, and it's already getting We put the commas there so it's just a little bit easier to read. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. It's going to be oneįollowed by 10 zeroes. This is going to be equal to, even the number that it's equal to is going to be quite hard to write. Let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. That's four, that's five, that's six, that's seven, that's eight, that's nine, that is 10 10s. So if I were to go 10 times 10 times 10 times 10, But at some point, if I'mĭoing this with enough 10s, it gets pretty hard to write. ![]() Multiply them together, so 10 times 10, which In this video, I'm going to introduce you to a new type of mathematical notation that will seem fancy at first, but hopefully you'llĪppreciate is pretty useful and also pretty straightforward.
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