Lesson: Power and Exponents over the Real Numbers Mathematics • Second Year of Preparatory School

Students will be able to

• recall that a power is a repeated multiplication of the base,
• evaluate a positive integer power of a real number,
• evaluate a negative integer power of a real number,
• evaluate a zero power of a real number,
• understand the following:
  • if and , then and ,
  • if where , then ,
  • if , then where and where ,
• evaluate algebraic expressions using the rules above,
• solve exponential equations using the rules above.