Eddie McCarthy

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by learning what IS and IS NOT a monomial. They then multiply some monomials in order to discover the rule: We can add their exponents. After solving a few problems, they do the same thing with dividing monomials to discover that rule: Subtracting the exponents. Finally, students are shown a proof/explanation as to why a number raised to the power of 0 equals 1. *This lesson is definitely just an intro to multipl

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by learning the rule for negative exponents, followed by a simple proof/explanation of why. After learning that 1 raised to any number equals 1, they begin working with negative exponents. They are shown how to rewrite negative exponent expressions with positive exponents, and vice versa. Next, they are challenged to rewrite fractions as expressions with negative exponents. For example, they see how to rewrite 1/2

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by learning what exponentiation really means. They are shown that exponentiation is shorthand for repeated multiplication in the same way that multiplication is shorthand for repeated addition. Next, they learn terms such as base, exponent, and power. Before solving any problems, they are taught what it means to have 1 or 0 as an exponent, as students frequently confuse these basic properties. Then they learn how