Exponent rules activities

Check out this fun and free exponent properties activity for your 8th grade, Algebra, and middle school math classroom. Your students will love practicing the laws of exponents as they complete this activity. More engaging than any worksheets, your students will master the exponent rules. Click here to gets your free. #makesenseofmath

Use these fun and easy techniques to teach exponents to beginners in fun and engaging ways your students will love.

Exponent Rules were some of my early creations. I started there because when I was teaching, this was the area I struggled with trying to find resources for. I found an abundance of activities that combined rules, but had a hard time finding activities that focused on one or two rules at a time. So that is why and how my larger bundle of Exponent Rules came about.

Why is a number raised to the zero power equal to 1? And why do terms with negative exponents become fractions? Are we able to see this through visual models? Yes! In this short video, you'll see how exponents take on a pattern and can be modeled concretely with cut paper. We'll start with 3 raised to the 2nd power and work our way to 3 to the -2.

Exponent rules can be a really abstract and difficult concept for eighth grade math and Algebra 1 students. Stop by the Free to Discover blog for some tips for teaching exponent rules, and download a free activity while you're there!

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When I teach laws of exponents in algebra, I love using activities and interactive notebook foldables. There are ideas for introducing properties and rules of exponents, the dreaded negative exponents, and multiplying and dividing exponents. Use an activity after the notes, before giving a worksheet for homework. #mrseteachesmath #exponents

I love teacherspayteachers. The graphic organizer from all things algebra is the bomb dot com. It was a great asset prior to playing algebra wars. I had a few errors like a missing negative sign, so that needs to be fixed prior to posting it. I cut the foldable so the kids had their chart of squares that they need to remember on the side. If you are like my students and wonder why I skipped 14 squared, I told them I have rarely used it in higher math classes. Using this logic, I probably…