March 15

Today in class we started a problem called The Kingdom Of Marteka. It had to do with equations including exponents. There were five different plans for a reward for a peasent. All of the plans had a different number of squares on the board number of rubas per first square and the rate they went up. For each plan they had a different equation and we had to find it. An example of one of the equations was 2 to x-1 power.


Standard notation is just a number or answer to a problem in number form. Scientific notation is another way of writing the answer to a problem with exponents. Its written in the form a times ten to the power of b. If the answer is too big they use scientific notation to simplify by earasing zeros.


During the proble we have to figure out how many rubas will be on the last tile and how many will be on the whole board. The king kept trying to change the proposal but, was really bad in math.