{"id":8186,"date":"2013-09-06T13:14:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T05:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=8186"},"modified":"2015-04-21T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T00:30:36","slug":"friday-math-movie-a-clever-way-to-estimate-enormous-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-a-clever-way-to-estimate-enormous-numbers-8186","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: A clever way to estimate enormous numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's important to be able to make estimates before attempting problems. Very few students get practice at this important math skill.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, Michael Mitchell begins with an overview of scientific notation and goes on to give us some suggestions on using powers of 10 to estimate large numbers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0YzvupOX8Is\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/michael-mitchell-a-clever-way-to-estimate-enormous-numbers\">associated TED-Ed lesson<\/a> that goes with this video.<\/p>\n<p>The video is one of the highly recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/8-math-talks-to-blow-your-mind\/\">8 Math Talks to Blow Your Mind<\/a> by TED.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-a-clever-way-to-estimate-enormous-numbers-8186\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/06\/estimate.jpg\" alt=\"Making estimates using powers of 10\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>This video shows how to use powers of 10 to make estimates of large numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}