It isn't necessarily as epic as it sounds, but today's update marks an important upgrade to our Powers of Ten math worksheets page. We used user feedback and our own knowledge of math education to provide a broad range of worksheets for learning powers of ten.
Learning how to multiply and divide by powers of ten can be an extremely useful math skill for students to acquire. This skill draws on a student's knowledge of place value, decimals, basic number concepts, and other prerequisite knowledge about numbers and operations. The benefits include a better understanding of the above plus extends into other topics in mathematics including fractions, estimation, number forms, exponents, algebra, and measurement.
The Updates
All of the existing worksheets on multiplying and dividing powers of ten by whole numbers and decimals were revised. If you were a frequent visitor to the Powers of Ten page, you might recall that each worksheet had 5 versions and no "All" version. Now, each worksheet includes our standard 10 versions plus an "All" link.
Previously, the standard form and exponent form pages were included in the same document making it necessary to only print the pages you wanted from the four-page worksheet document. Now, the standard and exponent form worksheets have been split up into separate files, so you can download only the form you want.
In addition to the above, we've also made a whole set of worksheets where multiplication and division are combined on the same worksheet both for whole numbers and decimals.
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| Multiplying and Dividing by all Powers of Ten in Standard Form (Version A) |
What's Next
While we were creating all of these worksheets, it occurred to us that some of you might also want to see some negative integers and negative decimals in the mix, so we should have those options available soon.
We also built capacity into our system to create European versions of the worksheets (i.e. using a point for a thousands separator and a comma for a decimal), so you may see those available in the near future as well.
One Additional Note
We've noticed a large increase in our users recently which can mean only one thing ... welcome back to school! Many schools in the U.S. and Canada where a large part of our user base is have already started their school year and many more will be starting in the next two weeks. Please accept our sincere wishes that you have a successful school year and that our math worksheets are part of it.
Even though we get a lot of visitors to Math-Drills.com, we have the capacity for many more, so please don't be shy and pass on the website link to others!
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