Scientific Notation

standard form

A number written without exponents: an integer or a decimal.

expanded notation

A way of writing numbers in which the numbers are written to show the place value of each digit (639 = 600 + 30 + 9)

power

a number that can be expressed using an exponent

base number

a number that has an exponent

factor

a number that is multiplied by another number to find a product

exponent

a number that tells how many times the base is to be used as a factor

scientific notation

a way of writing very large or very small numbers by using powers of 10

powers of 10

a whole number that can be written as a product of 10 (10, 100, 1,000 etc)

coefficient

number in front of a variable