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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Number: Positive Exponents

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Students learn about the concept of exponents by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
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Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Lamar University: Paul's Online Math Notes: Algebra: Integer Exponents

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The mathematics tutorial consists of notes and examples that investigate positive and negative integer exponents.
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Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble

Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Exponents and Radicals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This 2-part tutorial investigates exponents and radicals. Students learn about the concepts through class notes and practice problems. Topics include types of exponents, rational form, and exponential form. Radicals are discussed in Part...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Negative and Fractional Exponents

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A wealth of resources for classroom instruction on positive, negative, zero, and fractional exponents. Lessons offer guidelines for evaluating and working with exponents as well as step-by-step solutions to example problems. Practice...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Exponents

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this exercise, students demonstrate an understanding of exponents. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Exponents

For Students 5th - 7th
Practice taking exponents of whole numbers. All exponents in these problems are either positive or zero. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Exponents With Negative Fractional Bases

For Students 6th - 8th
Practice raising fractions to whole number powers. Fractions in these problems may be positive or negative. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Exponents With Integer Bases

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Practice raising positive and negative numbers (integers only) to whole number powers. Watch out for mischievous negative signs that aren't really part of the base! Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try...
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Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Patterning the Powers of 10

For Students 6th - 8th
This interactive Learn Alberta math resource offers a hands-on exploration of positive and negative exponents. In particular, students will work on completing patterns of base 10 exponents in a variety of forms, then look at these in the...
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Help Algebra

Help algebra.com: Exponents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Along with the definition of an exponent, this site also presents the properties of exponents. Several examples are used to demonstrate the properties. A summary of the laws of exponents is included for quick reference.
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Wyzant

Wyzant: Exponents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Review the concept of exponents and what it means to take a number "to a power." This is a good resource for a beginning unit on exponents. An online practice worksheet is available.
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Understanding Algebra

Understanding Algebra: Positive Integer Exponents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a simplified explanation about exponents along with a few rules for combining numbers with exponents.
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Help Algebra

Help algebra.com: Positive Integer Exponents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Product of a Power and Power to a Power laws of exponents are introduced. Examples are included to demonstrate how to simply expressions with these laws.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Positive, Negative, and Zero Exponents

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At this site from Oswego City School District, students are shown the basic laws which govern simplifying positive, negative, and zero exponents. Examples are provided during the explanations, and then practice problems (and their...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Number Sense

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Order of operations goes beyond the traditional basic four operations to include positive and negative exponents and parenthesizes.
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Wyzant

Wyzant: Polynomial Exponents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
WyzAnt shows the difference in taking the powers of products, quotients, and sums. An online instructional activity is provided for extra practice.
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Wyzant

Wyzant: Multiplying Variables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short tutorial is presented to demonstrate the product of a power law of exponents. Students can practice the concept using the online worksheet.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Powers of 10

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of the positive and negative exponents of the powers of 10. A table of examples are given and clearly explained.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Mathworld: Binomial Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A math web site on the binomial theorem. Find the binomial formulas for both positive integer exponents and negative integer exponents with this site.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Seven to the What?!?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
At first glance, this might seem like an impossible problem because the number $7^{2011}$ is much too large to evaluate even with a calculator. It requires a starting point, and, to many, such a starting point might not be obvious....
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Powers of the Imaginary Unit

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Simplify expressions with base i (the imaginary unit) raised to a positive exponent. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: "Power"ful Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, middle schoolers investigate the relationship between multiplication with repeated factors and the use of exponents. Students will connect "powers of ten" to place value positions.
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Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Calculus

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson has links to the various topics dealing with calculus. The student just needs to find the topic then click to go to it.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Graphing Calculator Practice Problems Integers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice using your graphing calculator for integer problems. If you get stumped or if you would like to check your work, then select the View Solution button, which is located directly under each problem.

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