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Negative Exponents

Objectives:
Students will demonstrate that negative exponents represent the reciprocals of expressions and that any number, except zero, to the zeroth power is 1. Students will simplify expressions with negative exponents.

NCTM Standards:
Students recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas

California Content Standards:
(2.0) Students understand and use such operations as finding the reciprocal. They understand and use the rules of exponents.

Slides:

* Dividing Powers
* To the Zero
* All the Rules Apply
* 0 and 1
* Practice

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