Rational Exponents Teacher Resources

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson applies the laws of exponents to rational exponents.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson introduces rational exponents and how to relate them to nth roots.

At Purplemath.com, you can scroll down to the last lesson on the page to learn about radical exponents.

Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that define radical notation and simplified radical form while relating radicals to rational exponents and showing how to rationalize the denominator, It also gives the properties of...

This resource shows how the properties of negative and zero exponents need to be true for the other rules of exponents to hold. In addition, it introduces fractional exponents and shows how to simplify algebraic expressions with negative...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers solving equations where the variable has a rational exponent.

The process for converting a number raised to a power within a root symbol to a number raised to a fraction exponent is demonstrated in this video. This lesson [1:51] is 2 of 15 in the series titled "Converting to Fractional Exponent Form."

In this lesson, students will see the steps for rewriting a fractional exponent as a number raised to a power within a root symbol. It is 2 of 13 in the series titled "Rewriting Fractional Exponents."

In this lesson, students are shown the relationship between roots and fractional exponents (one can be rewritten as the other). It is 2 of 10 in the series titled "Roots and Fractional Exponents."

In this lesson, students are shown the relationship between roots and fractional exponents (one can be rewritten as the other). It is 4 of 10 in the series titled "Roots and Fractional Exponents."

The University of Saskatchewan's Department of Mathematics and Statistics provides high school students with online tutorials and exercises on what they deem some of the most important topics in exponential and logarithmic functions....

Video simplifying a rational algebraic expression using the power of a power, power of a product and quotient of powers rules. [3:35]

A detailed look at how to simplify expressions with exponents and how to apply the rules for exponents. Lots of examples included. The third page provides an interactive widget to use for simplifying expressions with exponents.

Video simplifying a monomial by using the product of a power and negative exponent rules. [2:10]

This 2-part tutorial investigates exponents and radicals. Students learn about the concepts through class notes and practice problems. Topics include types of exponents, rational form, and exponential form. Radicals are discussed in Part...

Step-by-step explanations of the exponent laws including rules for combining powers and roots. Includes practice exercises.

In this video lesson students learn to simplify fractional exponent expressions.

A biology student is studying bacterial growth. She was surprised to find that the population of the bacteria doubled every hour. Aligns with the F-LE.A and N-RN.A.1 standards.

The process for converting a number raised to a power within a root symbol to a number raised to a fraction exponent is demonstrated in this video. This lesson [2:47] is 1 of 15 in the series titled "Converting to Fractional Exponent Form."

In this lesson, students will see the steps for rewriting a fractional exponent as a number raised to a power within a root symbol. It is 11 of 13 in the series titled "Rewriting Fractional Exponents."

In this lesson, students will see the steps for rewriting a fractional exponent as a number raised to a power within a root symbol. It is 1 of 13 in the series titled "Rewriting Fractional Exponents."

In this lesson, students are shown the relationship between roots and fractional exponents (one can be rewritten as the other). It is 1 of 10 in the series titled "Roots and Fractional Exponents."

The process for converting a number raised to a power within a root symbol to a number raised to a fraction exponent is demonstrated in this video.

In this video lesson students divide and simply a radical expression.