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Significant figures [Maths problem]

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posted on 2022-12-15, 10:00 authored by Colin FosterColin Foster

Students are often confused about how to round a number to a specified number of significant figures. In this lesson, students connect significant figures to other ways of rounding.

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School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematics Education Centre

Published in

Teach Secondary

Volume

12

Issue

1

Pages

13 - 13

Publisher

Aceville Publications

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© Aceville Publications

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Reproduced with the permission of the publisher. https://www.teachwire.net

Publication date

2023-01-01

Copyright date

2022

ISSN

2049-2782

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Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Colin Foster. Deposit date: 14 December 2022

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    FiguresNumbersMathematics

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