Thinking in Quantity

Level 6

Orders of Magnitude


 

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Students use orders of magnitude to understand how a model at one scale relates to a model at another scale.

TERMS

  • Scale models - a representation that has been reduced or enlarged to a specific scale

  • Orders of magnitude - is an approximation of the logarithm of a value relative to a reference value, usually ten

STANDARDS

HS-LS2-2 / HS-ESS1-1