Standard Form is a way of writing numbers that makes them easier to read and understand, especially when dealing with very large or very small values. In Standard Form, a number is expressed as a product of a number between 1 and 10 and a power of 10. For example, the number 5,000 can be written as 5 × 10^3, which shows that it is 5 multiplied by 1,000.
This format is particularly useful in fields like science and engineering, where extremely large or small measurements are common. For instance, the speed of light, approximately 299,792,458 meters per second, can be simplified to 2.9979 × 10^8 m/s in Standard Form. This makes