allexponentactivities

Tuesday,October09,2012 2:53PM

Activity 1:

1. In your blog, type a paragraph explaining what you have learned. Answer: What I have learned about exponents is that exponents are just a short way to write repeated multiplication. Another thing that I have learned is that any number but 0 to the power of 0 is equal to 1. 2. What is a base? Answer: A base is the whole number that the exponent is affecting 3. What is a power? Answer: The power is showing how many times you have to multiply the base by itself 4. What does a base and power (exponent) tell you to do? Answer: A base tells us what the number we are multiplying is, and the power tells us how many times we multiply it (by itself) 5. What is a power a shortcut to? Answer: A power is a shortcut to writing repeated multiplication 6. How could you use geometry to describe squaring or cubing a number? Answer: you could use geometry to describe squaring or cubing a number because you could use a grid and you could start out with a column and add more columns for what the power is. Example: If I did 23 I could do this =21

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Activity2

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Activity3 7. What do you get when you add x by x? Answer: What you get when you add x by x is the same as multiplying by 2 8. What do you get when you subtract x by x? Answer: What you get when you subtract x by x is 0 9. What do you get when you multiply x by x? Answer: What you get when you multiply x by x is the same as x2. 10. What do you get when you divide x by x? Answer: What you get when you divide x by x is 1 11. What do you get when you multiply x by x by x? Answer: What you get when you multiply x by x by x is x3 12. What about x by x by x by x by x? Answer: What you get when you multiply x by x by x by x by x is the same as what you get when you do x5 13. What do you get when you multiply x^2 by x? Answer: What you get when you multiply x2 by 2 is x3. 14. What about x^2 by x^3? Answer: What you get when you multiply x2 by x3 is x5. 15. What about x^4 by x^6? Answer: what you get when you multiply x4 by x6 is x10. 16. Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you multiply same bases. Answer: What happens when you multiply by the same base is that you "add" the powers together and that is your answer and because the base is the same you can keep it and just change the exponent to what you got [i.e. x3 multiplied by x4 you add 3 and 4 (the exponents) and you take the sum (7) and you put it "over" the x giving you x7] 17. What do you get when you divide x by x? Answer: What you get when you divide x by x is 1 because x is always the same number and a number divided by itself is always 1. 18. What do you get when you multiply x^2 by x? Answer: What you get when you multiply x2 by x is x3 (because if you think about it, the problem is really x3 multiplied by x1). 19. What about x^4 by x^2?

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Answer: what you get when you multiply x4 and x2 is x6. 20. What do you get when you divide x^5 by x^3? Answer: what you get when you divide x5 by x3 is x2 21. What about x^6 by x? Answer: what you get when you divide x6 by x(1) is x5 22. Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you divide same bases. Answer: What happens when you divide exponents with the same bases is that you "subtract" the powers by each other and because you have the same base that you started out with and you just put the power "on top" of the base [i.e. if the problem was x10 divided by x3 you subtract the powers (10 - 3) and you take the power (7) and put it "over" the base (x) and you end up with a quotient of x7). 23. What do you get when you square x^3? Answer: what you get when you square x3 is the same as saying x3 multiplied by x3 which is x6. 24. What do you get when you square x^4? Answer: what you get when you square x4 is the same as saying x4 multiplied by x4 and that equals x8. 25. What do you get when you cube x^2? Answer: what you get when you cube x2 is x4 because x2 cubed is the same as x2 multiplied x2. 26. What do you get when you raise x^3 to the fourth power? Answer: what you get when you raise x3 to the fourth power is the same as (x3)4 or x3 multiplied by x3 multiplied by x3 multiplied by x3 which is x12 27. What do you get when you raise x^2 to the fifth power? Answer: what you get when you raise x2 to the fifth power is the same as (x2)5 and the product of (x2)5 is x32. 28. Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you raise a base with an exponent by an exponent. Answer: What happens when you raise a base with an exponent by an exponent is that you take the entire number (base and power) and then you use the raised power like a regular exponent to the original base and power (i.e. if the problem was x2 raised to the third power than it can also be written as (x2)3 which is just saying x3 to the fifth power and you do that bye doing x2 multiplied by x2 multiplied by x2 and the product of that is x8). Pastedfrom<http://transitionalactivities.wikispaces.com/Exponents>

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