Curated OER
How Do You Add Like Terms?
Do you want to combine like terms the long way, or the quick way? Well, the instructor shows you both ways, and I bet you will prefer to combine like terms the quick way.
Curated OER
How Do You Evaluate an Exponent?
Identify the base, identify the exponent, write out the base the number of times indicated by the exponent. Then multiply the base as written out in expanded form. Finally simplify your answer and you will have just evaluated an exponent.
Curated OER
What Do You Do With a Zero Exponent?
There is one exception to this rule, but all numbers that have a power of zero equal one. Don't believe it? Watch this video as the instructor breaks it down to prove this to be true. This makes solving a problem with a zero exponent...
Curated OER
What's the Power of a Quotient Rule?
What's the definition of the power of a quotient rule? You have a fraction that has variables and exponents in the numerator and the denominator, and the whole thing is to a power. Oh my! Don't cry! You can do this. Once you see the rule...
Curated OER
How Do You Find the Cube Root of a Perfect Cube?
Introduce your class to cube roots! You can show them this video, in which an instructor demonstrates how to find the cube root of a perfect cube. While this video is clear and well-made, it is appropriate only for more advanced learners...
Curated OER
How Do You Identify Exponential Behavior from a Pattern in the Data?
The teacher illustrates two different exponential tables and explains what each one of them means. These are function tables, one demonstrates exponential growth and the other exponential decay. She clarifies how to analyze the...
Curated OER
How Do You Evaluate an Exponential Function?
Set up a table to keep track of your values as you evaluate an exponential function. Select some values for the table to plug in to the given exponential expression. Then evaluate the expression. Do you see a pattern?
Curated OER
What's Scientific Notation?
The instructor clarifies how to write numbers in scientific notation. There are a couple of criteria that must be followed in order to be able to write either a very small number, or a very large number, with lots of zeros, in scientific...
Virtual Nerd
What's the Product of Powers Rule?
Learning this rule will make your work with exponents much easier. The product of powers rule simply states that if you are multiplying numbers with the same base you can just add the exponents to get your answer. The instructor...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Scientific Notation: Lesson 7
This group of lessons introduces the use of scientific notation to express very large and very small values. This lesson is 7 of 18 in the series titled "Scientific Notation."
Virtual Nerd
Virtual Nerd: What's the Power of a Quotient Rule?
Review the power of the quotient rule to prep for the SAT. Watch this video and learn how to split an exponent and put it in the numerator and denominator of a fraction using the power of the quotient rule. [4:54]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Algebra: Exponent Properties Involving Products
Video lesson that first reviews what an exponent is, then introduces and explains different rules of exponents and uses them to simplify algebraic expressions. Includes an explanation of zero exponents. Video is also included in the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Algebra: Terms Coefficients and Exponents in a Polynomial
Explains polynomial vocabulary: term, coefficient, and exponent. Identifies terms, coefficients, and exponents of a given polynomial. [2:36]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Multiplying With Scientific Notation: Lesson 6
How to find a product when at least one number in the problem is shown in scientific notation is demonstrated in this lesson. It is 6 of 13 in the series titled "Multiplying with Scientific Notation."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Roots and Powers in Equations: Lesson 3
This lesson discusses how two powers are inverses if they result in 1 and how a root is the equivalent of a fractional power. It is 3 of 7 in the series titled "Roots and Powers in Equations."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Roots and Powers in Equations: Lesson 4
This lesson discusses how two powers are inverses if they result in 1 and how a root is the equivalent of a fractional power. It is 4 of 7 in the series titled "Roots and Powers in Equations."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Scientific Notation: Lesson 14
This group of lessons introduces the use of scientific notation to express very large and very small values. This lesson is 14 of 18 in the series titled "Scientific Notation."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Scientific Notation: Lesson 18
This group of lessons introduces the use of scientific notation to express very large and very small values. This lesson is 18 of 18 in the series titled "Scientific Notation."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Scientific Notation: Lesson 6
This group of lessons introduces the use of scientific notation to express very large and very small values. This lesson is 6 of 18 in the series titled "Scientific Notation."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Multiplying With Scientific Notation: Lesson 10
How to find a product when at least one number in the problem is shown in scientific notation is demonstrated in this lesson. It is 10 of 13 in the series titled "Multiplying with Scientific Notation."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Multiplying and Dividing Monomial Expressions With Integral Exponents
In this video, students learn how to multiply and divide monomial expressions with a common base, using the properties of exponents
Tyler DeWitt, PhD
Science With Tyler De Witt: Scientific Notation Practice Problems
A session of scientific notation practice problems in action. [13:31]
Virtual Nerd
Virtual Nerd: What Is Exponential Decay?
Instructional video explains the different kinds of exponential functions that involve the rate of increase or decrease of something. When it's a rate of decrease, you have an exponential decay function. [6:23]
Virtual Nerd
Virtual Nerd: What's Scientific Notation?
Very big or very small numbers can be written quicker using scientific notation. Watch this tutorial and learn about scientific notation. [1:20]