Lesson Plan: Laws of Exponents Mathematics • First Year of Preparatory School
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to apply the laws of exponents to multiply and divide powers and work out a power raised to a power.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- understand and recall the laws of exponents:
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- use the laws of exponents to simplify numerical expressions,
- use the laws of exponents to simplify simple algebraic expressions.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- finding powers of rational numbers with positive integer exponents.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- powers with negative integer exponents,
- powers with zero exponents,
- expressions involving nonrational numbers,
- noninteger powers.
