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 - Intermediate

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:

cite examples of how different aspects of natural and designed systems change at different rates with changes in scale.
use powers of ten notation to represent very small and very large numbers.

This is evident, for example, when students:

demonstrate that a large container of hot water (more volume) cools off more slowly than a small container (less volume).
compare the very low frequencies (60 Hertz AC or 6 x 10 Hertz) to the mid-range frequencies (10 Hertz-FM radio) to the higher frequencies (10 15 Hertz) of the electromagnetic spectrum.