Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: Scientific notation , also known as standard form or as exponential notation , is a way of writing numbers that accommodates values too large or small to be conveniently written in standard decimal notation .
Simplified: Scientific notation , also known as standard form , is a way of writing numbers that is often used by scientists and mathematicians to make it easier to write large and small numbers .