Exponents Discovery

Monday, October 07, 2013 10:07 AM

Part 1 In One Note, type a paragraph explaining what you have learned. From the online activity I have been surprised in the amount of information that I learned. More importantly I learned how to read exponents. In addition, I learned the very important skill of being able to read them correctly out loud. Before I would always say for example 4 to 4 but now I know how to correctly say it. One of the correct ways of saying this would be four to the power of four. Also, I learned the difference between the different ways to write the numbers. In addition, I became more familiar with the differen t definitions so I am now able to use the definitions and understand them clearly. Finally, I learned that with negative exponents you divi de which is something that I was in great confusion about before. Even though I learned a good deal of new things there were still some t hings that are hard and I am not familiar with yet. What is a base? The base is the constant number. It is the number that is not elevated and is the number that is being multip lied by its self. What is a power? A power is the exponent that tells you how many times you have to multiply the base by itself it is also the exponent. What does a base and power (exponent) tell you to do? It tells you to multiply the base by a certain number (power (exponent)) What is a power a shortcut to? It is a shortcut to the way of having to write it out in expanded form and repeated multiplication How could you use geometry to describe squaring or cubing a number? You could use a square or a cube

Part 2 2^1=2 2^2=4 2^3=8 2^4=16

Base 2

2*1=2 2*2=4 2*2*2=8 2*2*2*2=16

Exponent Meaning 4 3 Value

2*2*2*2 2*2*2

16 8

2 2 2 1 2 0 2 -1 2 -2 2 -3

2*2

2*1

1*1/2

1/2

1/2*1/2

0.25 1/4

1/2*1/2*1/2

0.125 1/8
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-3 2 2 -4

1/2*1/2*1/2

0.125 1/8

1/2*1/2*1/2*1/2 0.0625 1/16

As I increase the exponent more multiplication is happening and the base is multiplied more times. Each time we are multiplyi ng since we are working with two we are doubling the number. As I decrease the exponent division I am dividing by a half (1/2)
The pattern does work when we are working with negative exponents because we are going down by a half which is the same as w e are going up just when we are multiplying by 2.

Part 3

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

When I add x by x I get the double of x it would be like saying x+x because we are doubling it and adding it by itself. Your answer will be double of x. When you subtract x by x you will get 0 because you are subtracting the same number by the same number and therefore the answ er will be zero. When you multiply x by x it is the same as saying x^2 and you would get and you will get the answer of x^2. When you divide x by x you will get 1 because the same number goes into the same number once, no matter what. If you multiply x by x by x you get x^3 and you would write it out as x*x*x and I can not give you the number because I dont know what the value of x is. If you gave x by x by x by x by x then you will get x^5 When you multiply x^2 by x you get (x*x)*x so it would be x^3 When you multiply x^2 by x^3 you get (x*x)*(x*x*x) x^5 When you multiply x^4 by x^6 you get (x*x*x*x)*(x*x*x*x*x*x) so it would be x^10 When you multiply with the same bases you are multiplying the number by the base and adding that number as many times as the number of the base adding the exponents together.

1) When you divide x by x you get x/x. The answer would be 1

2. when you do x^2 by x you get (x*x)*x or x^3 3. when you do x^4 by x^2 you get (x*x*x*x)*(x*x) or x^6 4. when you divide x^5 by x^3 you get x^2

x*x*x*x*x x*x*x

5. when you divide x^3 by x you get x^2 x*x*x x

6. When you divide same bases you subtract the exponents.

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6. When you divide same bases you subtract the exponents.

1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6)

when you square x^3 you get (x^3)^2 (x*x*x)(x*x) or x^5 When you square x^4 you get (x^4)^2 or x^6 (x*x*x*x)(x*x) When you cube x^2 you get (x^2)^3 or x^5 (x*x)(x*x*x) When you raise x^3 to the fourth power you get (x^3)^4 which would give you x^12 When you raise x^2 to the fifth power you get (x^2)^5 x^10 When you raise one power to another you are multiplying the exponents

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