# Standard form - checking
**URL:** https://cl.desmos.com/t/standard-form-checking/3453
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** [June 7, 2021, 9:51am UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/standard-form-checking/3453 "2021-06-07T09:51:34Z")
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### Author:  [@tarnold](https://cl.desmos.com/u/tarnold)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2021, 9:51am UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/standard-form-checking/3453/1 "2021-06-07T09:51:34Z")
Can anyone point me to any examples where students are given an integer and asked to enter it into a maths box as a standard form number which is then checked ?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Aethir](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Aethir)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2021, 12:03pm UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/standard-form-checking/3453/2 "2021-06-07T12:03:03Z")
Ooooh, this is an interesting example of language difference. I wondered why you were trying to have students enter the exact same number - reading comprehension check?
Turns out what you call standard form I call scientific notation:
> **[How does scientific notation differ from standard notation? | Socratic](https://socratic.org/questions/how-does-scientific-notation-differ-from-standard-notation)**
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> As detailed below. Hope this helps. Scientific notation (also referred to as scientific form or standard index form, or standard form in the UK) is a way of expressing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form....
In any case, you’ll want to take a look at this:
> [@Pattern Matching](https://cl.desmos.com/t/pattern-matching/2972):
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> There have been quite a few questions recently about the pattern type in the CL documentation, so I thought I’d record a few short videos to help you get started. I’ll share here each time a new video is posted, and we’ll also keep them in a playlist on our YouTube channel. First up: Scientific Notation [[Scientific Pattern] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtDJdVW5uMk)
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### Author:  [@tarnold](https://cl.desmos.com/u/tarnold)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2021, 1:04pm UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/standard-form-checking/3453/3 "2021-06-07T13:04:55Z")
Thanks. I wasn’t even aware of pattern matching . Really helped!