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It’s Christmas Eve as I write this, so I don’t have a lot of time to pull together a post. After church and lunch, my husband and I will be making the drive to see my parents. We’ll spend the night and celebrate Christmas with them tomorrow.
Today I just want to share a quick resource I put together earlier in the year for my chemistry students. When I took chemistry in high school, my teacher made us memorize the metric prefixes and what power of ten they stood for. This made life much easier while doing dimensional analysis problem after dimensional analysis problem.
I do give my students a metric prefix chart to keep in their notebooks, but I don’t want my students to have to reference it every single time we try to convert kilograms to milligrams. So, I decided to type up a set of metric prefix flashcards to help my students memorize the prefixes.

I printed these double sided on green card stock for durability. I let my chemistry students make their own flashcards earlier in the year for memorizing the symbols of the first 36 elements, and they wasted so much paper making their own. So, I decided it was best to just type up a set that they could cut out.
I also want to share a copy of the metric prefix quiz I gave my students.
Free Download of Metric Prefix Flashcards
Metric Prefix Flashcards (PDF) (399 downloads)
Metric Prefix Flashcards (Editable Publisher File ZIP) (498 downloads)
Free Download of Metric Prefix Quiz
Metric Prefix Quiz (PDF) (385 downloads)
Metric Prefix Quiz (Editable Publisher File ZIP) (476 downloads)
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