The days are too short!<\/p>\n
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Today we quickly finished up those notes from yesterday in some classes (others were already finished thankfully)<\/p>\n
base10_notes<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We then talked quickly about exponentiation.<\/p>\n And how something like:<\/p>\n 2^3<\/p>\n Does NOT mean 2 x 3!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We discussed powers of ten, and how in our BASE 10 system, the BASE of all of our place values, is 10!<\/p>\n So something such as 456<\/p>\n Is made up of:<\/p>\n 4 x 10^2<\/p>\n 5 x 10^1<\/p>\n 6 x 10^0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We did a quick example of this in our example notebooks, and also a quick explanation of why anything raised to the 0 power is 1.<\/p>\n dissectinganumberexample<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So in any base system, the base is what we group in, and each place value is based on that number.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Finally we talked a bit more about base 2, and then did some work writing numbers in base 2. \u00a0Tonight students should finish this worksheet (the front) if they have not already:<\/p>\n base2exercise<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tomorrow we will do some more work with base 10 and other bases, and do some centers that give us a good bit of practice.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Have a good one,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Mr. Potter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The days are too short! Today we quickly finished up those notes from yesterday in some classes (others were already finished thankfully) base10_notes We then talked quickly about exponentiation. And how something like: 2^3 Does NOT mean 2 x 3!! We discussed powers of ten, and how in our BASE 10 system, … Continue reading QTR 2 DAY 8 (11.9.2016)<\/span>