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Exponents Discovery

Monday, October 07, 2013 9:01 AM

Type a paragraph explaining what you have learned.

What I learned was that if you your exponent is 32 you multiply the number by itself that many times. Then I learned about components and the meanings of power. It showed what the meaning was and of 32 which is 3*3. Also I learned the forms of exponents. It also gave some practice problems for me to do. At first when I did this I was confused and I got frustrated ,but when I got farther into it I got more used to it.
1. What is a base?

the number being multiplied in a power


2. What is a power?

the answer from multiplying a number by itself one or more times.


3. What does a base and power (exponent) tell you to do? The exponent tells the base to multiply by itself the amount of times the number the exponent is. 4. What is a power a shortcut to? Instead of saying3*3*3 it is 33 5. How could you use geometry to describe squaring or cubing a number? You can use geometry to square something like if one side of a square is 2 and you need to square it means to double it and cube is to triple it

Part2 Base 2 Exponent Meaning 4 3 2 2 2 1 2 0 2 -1 2 -2 2 -3 2 -4 2 Value

2*2*2*2 2*2*2

16 8

2*2

1/2

0.5 or 1/2

1/2*1/2

0.25 or 1/4

1/2*1/2*1/2

0.125 or 1/8

1/2*1/2*1/2*1/2 0.0625 or 1/16

Introduction to Exponents Page 1

Fill in the powers of 1, 2, 3, and 4 with the information you just found. Start with 2 to the first power. As you increase the exponent, what is operation happening to the base? 21=2 22=2*2 The base stays the same but the exponent keeps on growing. so the base is getting multiplied by the number of the exponent. The pattern is that when you get to the smaller base you divide it by 2 Starting with the exponent of 4, as you decrease each exponent, what operation is happening to the base? In the multiplication the base is subtracting by one Now, decrease the exponent from 1 to 0 and using the pattern you have discovered, determine the value of 2 to the 0 power and fill in the table. Continue with this pattern to fill out the rest of the table. Double check your table. Does the pattern work from 2^-4 to 2^4 as the exponent increases each time? The pattern does not work it only divides by your base which is 2 or multiplying by 0.5 when decreasing Does the pattern work from 2^4 to 2^-4 as the exponent increases each time? The pattern does work because it is decreasing to 2^-4 Part 3

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Use constants to help you think through what happens with variables in the following list of questions. What do you get when you add x by x? x2 What do you get when you subtract x by x?0 What do you get when you multiply x by x? x2 What do you get when you divide x by x? x What do you get when you multiply x by x by x?x3 What about x by x by x by x by x?x5 What do you get when you multiply x^2 by x?x3 What about x^2 by x^3?x5 What about x^4 by x^6?x10 Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you multiply same bases. If it is x^2 by x it equals x*x*x so it makes it easy to understand What do you get when you divide x by x?1 What do you get when you multiply x^2 by x?x3 What about x^4 by x^2?6x What do you get when you divide x^5 by x^3?x2 What about x^6 by x?x5 Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you divide same bases. All you do is subtract the top number from the bottom number What do you get when you square x^3?x6 What do you get when you square x^4?x8 What do you get when you cube x^2?x6 What do you get when you raise x^3 to the fourth power?x12 What do you get when you raise x^2 to the fifth power?x10 Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you raise a base with an exponent by an exponent. You multiply the old power by the power you want to raise which gets the new power.

Introduction to Exponents Page 2

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