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Home Concept Builders Fundamentals: Measurements and Calculations Significant Digits and Measurement

Significant Digits and Measurement

The Significant Digits and Measurement Concept Builder challenges learners to combine an understanding of significant digits with the proper method of reporting a measured or a calculated value. There are three different activities. In the first activity - What's Significant? - learners inspect a numerical value and make a decision regarding the number of significant digits present in the numerical value. In the second activity - Mesurement - learners are provided a diagram of a measurement apparatus and must use it to identify a properly-reported measured value. In the third activity - Math Operations - learners must use measured values to calculate a quantity and identify the proper expression of that calculated value in terms of significant digits. There are a total of 45 questions in this Concept Builder. They are organized into 15 different Question Groups and spread across the three activities. Question-specific help is provided for each of the 15 Question Groups. The built-in score-keeping makes this Concept Builder a perfect candidate for a classroom activity.

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Users are encouraged to open the Concept Builder and begin. There is no need for an activity sheet for this Concept Builder.

Learners and Instructors may also be interested in viewing the accompanying Notes page. Technical information, teaching suggestions, and related resources that complement this Interactive are provided on the View Notes.