Powers and Exponents Lesson 1-2

Vocabulary Factors Base Exponent Evaluate Expanded Form Powers Squared Cubed Evaluate Expanded Form Exponential Form

Location, Location, Location… Exponential form Product Exponent Expanded form Base

Exponents and Powers Exponents expresses the power of the term Power(s) is the number of bases you have to multiply together, NOT how many times you multiply. Example: NOT : 4, times 4, times 4, times 4

Powers Squared To the second power How many dimensions in a square Area Cubed To the third power How many dimensions in a cube? Volume

Writing in… Expanded form (writing as a product of the same factor) An expression without exponents EX: 5 x 5 x 5 Exponential form Formed with a Base and an Exponent EX:

Evaluate Fancy word for SOLVE! Find the answer.

Examples Write in exponential form 3 • 3 • 3 • 3 = 4 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 5 • 5 • 5 = 6 • 6 • 6 • 7 • 7 =

Examples Write in expanded form

Homework Worksheet Practice 1-2, # ALL, omit 32.