Divide and conquer the quotient rule for exponents. A short video shows how to simplify exponential expressions using the quotient rule. The narrator works through several examples on the topic.

Concepts

exponential expressions, simplifying expressions, exponents, properties of exponents

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Pause the video to have viewers try out the example problems before watching solutions
  

Classroom Considerations

• Resource assumes learners are already familiar with the properties of exponents
• Scholars should be able to find prime factorizations and be able to simplify fractions
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Shows why the quotient rule for exponents works
• Thorough explanations help make the concept clear
  

Cons

• Provides very few examples
  

Common Core

8.EE.A.1