Byram Hills Central School District

This information has been taken directly from the Accelerate U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12 Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information in this document has been changed.

Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Three Levels

Standard 6 - Interconnectedness: Common Themes - Commencement

Students will understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning.

Magnitude and Scale

3. The grouping of magnitudes of size, time, frequency, and pressures or other units of measurement into a series of relative order provides a useful way to deal with the immense range and the changes in scale that affect the behavior and design of systems.

Students:

describe the effects of changes in scale on the functioning of physical, biological, or designed systems.
extend their use of powers of ten notation to understanding the exponential function and performing operations with exponential factors.

This is evident, for example, when students:

explain that an increase in the size of an animal or a structure requires larger supports (legs or columns) because of the greater volume or weight.
use the relationship that v=f l to determine wave length when given the frequency of an FM radio wave, such as 100.0 megahertz (1.1 x 10 8 Hertz), and velocity of light or EM waves as 3 x 10 8m/sec can.