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