Exponent wiki activity

Monday, October 08, 2012 8:43 PM

Exponent Wiki Activity Part 1

What is a base? A base is the number on the bottom. This number is the number in which the exponent is dependent of; the bottom number is the number in which you multiply it by itself as many times as the exponents are. What is a power? The power is the exponent in which it indicates how many times you multiply the base by itself. What do the base and power tell you? The base and the power tell you to multiply the base by itself as many times as the exponent; the number of the power is the number indicating how many times the base is multiplied by itself. What is the power the short cut of? The power is the shortcut to writing out the expanded form and saying 3x3x3x3x3 instead you could say 3 How could you use geometry to describe squaring or cubing a number? As the power or exponent increases so does the dimension or grid.

Exponent Wiki Activity Part 2

When you have 21 it is the same as 2 x 1 or just 2. When you have 22 you multiply 2 x 2 which is 4. When you have 23 you multiply 2 x 2 x 2 which is 8. When you have 24 it is the same as 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 which is 16.
Base Exponent Meaning Value

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

4 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3 -4

2 x2x2x2 2x2x2 2x2 2x1 0 -2 x -1 -2 x -2 -2 x -2 x -2

16 8 4 2 0 1 -2 -4

-2 x -2 x -2 x -2 -8

Start with 2 to the first power. As you increase the exponent, what is operation happening to the base?

if the base is 2 and as the exponent increases, the number of times you multiply 2 by itself increases.
Starting with the exponent of 4, as you decrease each exponent, what operation is happening to the base?

If the exponent is 4 then when decreasing the exponent, the number of times you multiply a number by itself decreases.
Does the pattern work from 2^-4 to 2^4 as the exponent increases each time?

Introduction to Exponents Page 1

Does the pattern work from 2^-4 to 2^4 as the exponent increases each time? When increasing the exponent, you multiply the number by 2. Does the pattern work from 2^4 to 2^-4 as the exponent increases each time? When increasing the exponent, you divide by 2 when going down.

Part 3: Power of Variables

Base = 2
Use constants to help you think through what happens with variables in the following list of questions. 1. What do you get when you add x by x? the answer would be 2 2 = 2 2. What do you get when you subtract x by x? the answer would be 2 / 2 = 1 3. What do you get when you multiply x by x? x2 = 4 4. What do you get when you divide x by x? 1 5. What do you get when you multiply x by x by x? x3 = 8 6. What about x by x by x by x by x? x5 = 32 7. What do you get when you multiply x^2 by x? x3 = 8 8. What about x^2 by x^3? X5 = 32 9. What about x^4 by x^6? X10 = 1024 Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you multiply same bases. When you multiply same bases the number of times you multiply it by itself is the power. 10. What do you get when you divide x by x? x1 = 2 11. What do you get when you multiply x^2 by x? x3 = 8 12. What about x^4 by x^2? X6 = 64 13. What do you get when you divide x^5 by x^3? X15 = 32768 14. What about x^6 by x? x7 = 128 Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you divide same bases. When you divide same bases the answer is 1. 15. What do you get when you square x^3? 2 x 2 x 2 = 8 16. What do you get when you square x^4? 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 16 17. What do you get when you cube x^2? 2 x 2=4 18. What do you get when you raise x^3 to the fourth power? X12 = 4096 19. What do you get when you raise x^2 to the fifth power? X10 = 1024 Come up with a rule that explains what happens when you raise a base with an exponent by an exponent. When you raise the exponent, you multiply the exponent by the power you are raising it to then that becomes the exponent you multiply by.

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