Extra Practice on Exponent Rules

Some people have asked me for extra practice on exponent rules.  Here are a few resources you can look at:

Handout: Exponent Rules Practice

Websites:
   http://math.uww.edu/~mcfarlat/141/expo2.htm

   http://www.themathpage.com/alg/rational-exponents.htm

Have fun!

Exam Schedule

All exams at 9AM

Jan. 24 Period 4

Jan. 25 Period 5

Jan. 28 Period 1

Jan. 29 Period 2

Jan. 30 Period 3 --> Math Exam

Jan. 31 Exam Review Day

Dec. 5 Class

First, some homework solutions:

Then we played a game where we dropped cards on the table.  People with face up cards stayed in the game.  People with face down cards were eliminated.  We graphed the number of people left and got the following:

After paying the game twice, we got essentially the same graph... why?

Then I told the story of a man who asks the Emperor for rice.  The man asked for a chess board and 1 grain of rice on the first square.  On each square he asked to double it, by the time the board was half full, the Emperor had run out of rice, and there were many more squares to go!  We graphed it and examined the shape of the graph.

These two graphs are examples of exponential graphs.

We then graphed a function with x in the exponent and examined features of that graph.  This is the base graph that we will study in the coming days.

Homework: Copy “In Summary” p. 393 into notes

p. 394 #1-3

p. 419 #1-8

Dec. 4 Class

Here are some solutions from the homework problems:

Handouts: 

• Rational Exponents
• Practice on Rational Exponents

And here are notes from class:

Homework: P. 415 #1-19

Dec. 3 Class

Today we talked more about exponents, specifically, how to rewrite exponents so that they have a different base.  We also spent some time to discuss how brackets can effect the answer when you evaluate exponents.

Here are the handouts:

• Exponent Laws Chart
• Exponent Laws Practice
• Integer exponents

And here are the notes:

Homework: p. 407 #1-13

Nov. 30 Class

Congratulations on completing the test.  Here is the next unit:

New Unit: Exponential Functions!

Here are the handouts:

• Daily Plan
• Exponents review

Here are the notes:

Nov. 27 Class

Today was mainly a work period but I started with a quick review.

Here are the notes:

Homework: Review for test,
Cumulative Review

• p. 382 #6-9, 27-29
• p. 292 #1-11
• p. 357 #1-9