Powers and Exponents

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Powers and Exponents

• Lesson 1-2

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Vocabulary

• Factors
• Base
• Exponent
• Powers
• Squared
• Cubed
• Evaluate
• Expanded Form
• Exponential Form

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Location, Location, Location
Product
Exponent
Expanded form
Base
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Exponents and Powers

• Exponents expresses the power of the term
• Power(s) is the number of bases you have to
  multiply together, NOT how many times you
  multiply.
• Example
• NOT 4, times 4, times 4, times 4

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Powers

• Squared
• To the second power
• How many dimensions in a square
• Area
• Cubed
• To the third power
• How many dimensions in a cube?
• Volume

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Writing in

• Expanded form (writing as a product of the same
  factor)
• An expression without exponents
• EX 5 x 5 x 5
• Exponential form
• Formed with a Base and an Exponent
• EX

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Evaluate

• Fancy word for SOLVE!
• Find the answer.

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Examples

• Write in exponential form
• 3 3 3 3
• 4 4 4 4 5 5 5
• 6 6 6 7 7

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Examples

• Write in expanded form

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Homework

• Worksheet
• Practice 1-2, ALL, omit 32.