Description
This is a great, engaging hands-on activity to practice exponent rules! I call this matching activity "Puzzles of 4".
For this activity, you will put students into groups (2-4 students per group, depending on the size of your class). Each group will be given the 16 cut-out puzzle pieces included in this file. The goal of the group will be to put the pieces together into 4 sets of 4. For each set, there is a simplified exponent expression, and 3 exponent problems that all simplify to the same answer. For my students, I personally like to make it more of a game by challenging them to see which group can complete all 4 puzzles first. As a teacher, this activity is nice because students can check their own answers by seeing if the answer they get is one of the 4 answers on the puzzle pieces. It means I can go around helping groups who run into trouble instead of checking answers for students.
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Description
This is a great, engaging hands-on activity to practice exponent rules! I call this matching activity "Puzzles of 4".
For this activity, you will put students into groups (2-4 students per group, depending on the size of your class). Each group will be given the 16 cut-out puzzle pieces included in this file. The goal of the group will be to put the pieces together into 4 sets of 4. For each set, there is a simplified exponent expression, and 3 exponent problems that all simplify to the same answer. For my students, I personally like to make it more of a game by challenging them to see which group can complete all 4 puzzles first. As a teacher, this activity is nice because students can check their own answers by seeing if the answer they get is one of the 4 answers on the puzzle pieces. It means I can go around helping groups who run into trouble instead of checking answers for students.
