Exploring Laws of Exponents!

In this activity, students use their prior knowledge to investigate and discover some of the laws of exponents! The specific exponent rules addressed in this minilesson are:

-Product Rule
-Power Rule
-Quotient Rule
-Power of a Product
-Power of a Quotient

This activity gives gives learners the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the exponent rules because they are given the chance to see why they hold true!

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After completing this activity, you may want to play “Old Expy – Exponent Rules Game!” with your students. This will give them a chance to practice simplifying expressions using the laws of exponents they just learned!