Mathematics GCSE
Ordinary form
What Ordinary form means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Ordinary form
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Reference: AQA
Writing a number as a usual integer or decimal rather than as a coefficient multiplied by a power of ten.
Topics that use Ordinary form
- Structure and calculation (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Calculating with powers of 10
- Checking answers by substitution
- Checking for repeats and omissions
- Coefficient
- Conjugate
- Converting between ordinary and standard form
- Counting outcomes in context
- denominator
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