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Lesson Plan: Simplifying Expressions: Rules of Exponents Mathematics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to simplify algebraic expressions using the rules of exponents.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- identify and use the following rules of exponents to simplify expressions:
- ,
- ,
- ,
- ,
- expand expressions with parentheses and apply the rules of exponents to simplify,
- divide polynomials by monomials and apply the rules of exponents to simplify.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- algebraic expressions,
- multiplying an algebraic expression by a constant (e.g., ),
- simplifying expressions by combining like terms.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- multiplying polynomials by binomials (or higher order polynomials),
- factoring algebraic expressions,
- negative and fractional exponents.
