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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...
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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.
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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.
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Laws of Exponents Worksheet
In this exponents worksheet, students rewrite the five given exponents as a single exponent using exponent rules.
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Laws of Exponents Worksheet
In this exponents worksheet, students rewrite the given five problems as a single exponent by using exponent rules.
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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...
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Laws of Exponents
For this laws of exponents worksheet, young scholars solve 12 exponent problems. Students use exponent rules to simplify exponential expressions.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.