Lesson: Powers and Exponents for Rational Numbers Mathematics • First Year of Preparatory School

Students will be able to

• understand that a power is a repeated multiplication,
• identify the base and exponent of a power,
• write a power in expanded form (repeated multiplication) and vice versa,
• evaluate powers of integers and rational numbers with positive integer exponents,
• solve real-world problems using powers and exponents,
• simplify numerical and simple algebraic expressions by calculating the values of rational numbers raised to a positive integer power.