Curated OER
Rational Exponents
Investigate rational exponents in this math instructional activity. Scholars make conjectures about the relationship between rational exponents and radicals. They then use their Ti-Nspire to simplify rational exponents.
Del Mar College
Exponential and Radical Rules
So many rules and so little time. Make it easy and provide all the exponent and radical rules in one place as an easy reference guide. All of the properties come with several examples to show how the rules apply to different problems.
Virginia Department of Education
Exponents
Expand your knowledge of exponents with an activity that promotes critical thinking and comparison skills. Middle and high schoolers compare numbers written in expanded and exponential form and explain their strategies for solving...
Curated OER
Exponent Rules
Pupils use calculators to work independently to discover the rules for working with exponents. The lesson requires the use of a TI-nspire handheld and software.
Curated OER
Follow the (exponent) Laws!
Students participate in technology-rich activities with the common goal of strengthening Students' understanding of simplifying expressions that involve exponents. They work in heterogeneous groups to discover the laws of exponents.
Education Development Center
Extending Patterns with Exponents
Don't think negatively about exponents. Young mathematicians dissect a fictional conversation between pupils trying to evaluate an expression with a negative exponent. This allows them to understand the meaning of negative exponents.
Curated OER
Exponent Laws
For this exponent laws worksheet, 8th graders read examples of the three laws of operations for division, multiplication and exponents, then solve ten problems.
Curated OER
Laws of Exponents Worksheet
In this exponents worksheet, students rewrite the five given exponents as a single exponent using exponent rules.
Curated OER
Laws of Exponents Worksheet
In this exponents worksheet, students rewrite the given five problems as a single exponent by using exponent rules.
Geography 360°
Exponents
Don't let the rules overrule the activity. Mental math steps in and helps learners understand exponent patterns. The material focuses on the introductory problems of exponents, such as simplifying expressions. Teacher guides are...
Curated OER
Exponent Power
Middle schoolers explore multiplication and division problems using exponents. Students examine positive, negative and zero powers. They relate powers to geometric sequences. Middle schoolers devise strategies and discover rules of...
Curated OER
Laws of Exponents
For this laws of exponents worksheet, young scholars solve 12 exponent problems. Students use exponent rules to simplify exponential expressions.
BW Walch
Solving Exponential Equations
Introducing exponential equations means learners need to take all the rules and tricks they learned for exponents and actually apply them. This presentation comes to the rescue by touching on changing bases in exponential equations after...
Del Mar College
The Laws of Logs
Two students were sitting on a log and decided they wanted to be awesome at math. Bring in the logarithm handout! The first page introduces the idea of a logarithm and the different operations and rules it entails. The second page...
Del Mar College
Quick Reference Card
A neat and organized formula handout makes the circle go round, doesn't it? Full of higher algebra topics, formulas and rules, graphs and definitions—there is a way to support everyone in Algebra II or Pre-Calculus.
EngageNY
Multiplication of Numbers in Exponential Form
Develop a solid understanding of multiplication and division properties of exponents. Individuals expand exponential terms to discover the patterns and create the properties in the second installment in a series of 15. The activity...
Curated OER
Laws of Exponents
Ninth graders identify the different laws of exponents. In this algebra lesson, 9th graders write the rules of exponents and use them to solve problems. They use the product, quotient laws to solve problems.
Curated OER
Negative Exponents and Scientific Notation
In this exponent rules worksheet, students simplify 56 negative exponents and scientific notation problems. Students use exponent rules to simplify each problem.
Curated OER
Bigger and Smaller - Exponent Rules
Students study rules regarding exponents. It uses a situation from Alice in Wonderland in which Alice's height is doubled or reduced by half depending on what she consumes to introduce negative exponents and the rules for dividing powers.
Curated OER
The Exponent Rules
For this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders use the computer program Understanding Exponents to examine the laws of exponents. The worksheet is divided into an on computer and off computer component. The worksheet is eleven pages long...
Virginia Department of Education
Scientifically Speaking
Explore the connection between operations with scientific notation and the laws of exponents. Scholars work on a set of word problems involving operations with scientific notation. Along the way, they consider how the laws of exponents...
Curated OER
Rewriting Logarithms
In this logarithm instructional activity, learners explore logarithms. They use the product rule and the quotient rule to combine logarithms. This two page instructional activity contains five multi-step problems. Answers are provided on...
Curated OER
Division of Monomials
Students relate the division of monomials to multiplication. In this division of monomials lesson plan, students divide monomials by factoring and dividing common factors from the originals. They check their answers by multiplication. As...
Curated OER
Extra Practice 8: Simplifying Expressions and Order of Operations
In this practice worksheet, students use the order of operations to solve given equations. There are 44 problems on this two-page worksheet.