Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Caraga Administrative Region
Division of Agusan del Sur

A DETAILED
LESSON PLAN
IN
MATHEMATICS

Prepared By:

EDELYN PAULINIO BUHAWE

Mathematics teacher

I. OBJECTIVES: at the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

a. identify the significant digits in a given situation;

b. ; and
 c.

II. SUBJECT MATTER: SIGNIFICANT FIGURES

Reference: Teacher's guide
Materials: chalks, projector, Laptop, Charts and cardboards
Values integration: Cooperation
Strategies: Deductive method, Collaborative learning approach, Inquiry
approach and Questioning

III-PROCEDURE:

Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity

A. Preliminary Activities
1. Prayer
Requesting everyone to please stand for a
prayer.
2. Greetings
Goodmorning class! Good morning ma’am.
Before you sit down, kindly pick up some
pieces of papers and cellophanes under your
chairs then sit properly.
We’re fine ma’am.
How are you today?
That’s good.
3. Checking of attendance
Who is the secretary of the class?
Who are not around?
4. Setting of class standard Pay attention and listen ma’am.
Class, if the teacher is already in front what
will you do? We will raise our right hand ma’am.
And if you have questions?
Very good, can I expect all of that from you? Yes ma’am!
5. Review
B. Developmental activities
1. Motivation
2. Presentation of the lesson
Our topic for today is Significant figures.
These are the objectives for today.
Everybody read!
(Reading of objectives)
a. identify the significant digits in
a given situation;
b. ; and
3. Lesson proper c.
What is Significant digits?
Significant digits are the digits in a number
that express the precision of a measurement
rather than its magnitude. The number of
significant digits in a given measurement
depends on the number of significant digits in
the given data.

Rules for Determining Significant Digits

A. All digits that are not zeros are significant.

For example: 2781 has 4 significant digits

82.973 has 5 significant digits

B. Zeros may or may not be significant.

Furthermore,

1. Zeros appearing between nonzero digits are

significant. 0.000027
For example:
a. 20.1 has 3 significant digits
b. 79002 has 5 significant digits
2. Zeros appearing in front of nonzero digits
are not significant.
For example:
a. 0.012 has 2 significant digits
b. 0.0000009 has 1 significant digit
3. Zeros at the end of a number and to the
right of a decimal are significant digits. Zeros
between nonzero digits and significant zeros
are also significant.
For example:
a. 15.0 has 3 significant digits

b. 25000.00 has 7 significant digits

4. Zeros at the end of a number but to the left
of a decimal may or may not be significant. If
such a zero has been measured or is the first
estimated digit, it is significant. On the other
hand, if the zero has not been measured or
estimated but is just a place holder it is not
significant. A decimal placed after the zeros
indicates that they are significant.
For example:
a. 560000 has 2 significant digits
b. 560000. has 6 significant digits

Any questions or clarifications about our

topic?

The teacher will give an examples and let the

students to answer on their own.

4. Application
This time, we will have a quiz bowl. But before
that I will group you first into 2, you are going
to use cardboard for your answers. All you
have to do is to express the following scientific
notation into numbers. I have here 2
categories, each category has five given
numbers, each of it has 10-50 points, it
depends the level of difficulty. I will only give
you 30 seconds to answer each number.
Am I understood?
Before we start, please raise your cardboards,
chalks and eraser.
Are you ready?
Am I understood?
1.) 10 points
6.3 x 10-4  0.00 063
2.) 20 points
8.04 x 102  804
3.) 50 points
9.25 x 10-5  0.0 000 925
4.) 40 points
5.10 x 10-4  0. 000 510
5.) 50 points
3.4 x 106  3 400 000

(The teacher will declared the winner)

2. Generalization
What have you learn today that you can apply
into real life as a student?
Very good!

IV. EVALUATION:

In a ¼ sheet of paper. Express the following scientific notation int decimal notation.
1. 5.53 x 109
2. 6.78 x 108
3. 5.31 x 10-6
4. 4.1 x 10-4
5. 5. 6.5 x 10-3

V. ASSIGNMENT:

Advance study about real numbers.