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Tuesday, May 10, 2011 1:53 PM

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http://www.mathdork.com/games/asteroidsexp3/asteroidsexp3.html http://www.slidermath.com/wjava/Expnt2.shtml http://www.scienceacademy.com/BI/ (click on Exponents on the side bar each time you are ready for a new problem) http://people.hofstra.edu/stefan_waner/Realworld/tut_alg_review/framesA_2.html (First section of questions Q1-Q3 )

I have recently learned about exponents. I have learned about bases, exponents, and powers. A base of a power is the lower, regular sized number used to tell the factor being multiplied. The exponent is the raised, smaller number used to tell how many times the base multiplies itself by itself. A power indicates repeated multiplication of the same factor. So 2 to the 2nd power would be the same as 2 squared. Together these things tell you what to multiply, how many times it multiplies itself, and how to say this equation. a power is a shortcut for multiplying a number by itself. Describing this using geometry would go something like this; say I was using cubes. 2 cubes to th 2nd power would be 2 cubes times 2 cubes, which equalls 4 cubes. That is what I have earned about exponents.

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Exponent Meaning Value

4

24

16

3 2
2

22

2 1
2

0 2
-1

20

2-1

2
-2 2

2-2

q1. its doubling q2. being halfed q3. yes q4. yes

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2

2-3

-4 2

2-4

What do you get when you add x by x?2x What do you get when you subtract x by x?x0 What do you get when you multiply x by x? What do you get when you divide x by x? What do you get when you multiply x by x by x? What about x by x by x by x by x? What do you get when you multiply x^2 by x? What about x^2 by x^3? What about x^4 by x^6? Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you multiply same bases. any number times itself is 1 What do you get when you divide x by x? What do you get when you multiply x^2 by x? What about x^4 by x^2? What do you get when you divide x^5 by x^3? What about x^6 by x? Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you divide same bases. just subtract the exponents

What do you get when you square x^3? What do you get when you square x^4? What do you get when you cube x^2? What do you get when you raise x^3 to the fourth power?

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What do you get when you square x^4? What do you get when you cube x^2? What do you get when you raise x^3 to the fourth power? What do you get when you raise x^2 to the fifth power? Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you raise a base with an exponent by an exponent.

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