The Lesson I Used to Teach and Reteach All Year
Year after year, algebra students are initially mystified by simplifying expressions containing exponents… especially when negatives show up. They seem to want to memorize a “trick”, and often generalize things that simply don’t work.
These resources help students identify the base before expanding and simplifying the expressions. Likewise, these sets of problems seamlessly promote a discussion about the impact of even and odd exponents.
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