Rewriting Powers

In previous lessons, students worked with multiplication of powers and powers of powers. In this lesson, students will continue working with those kinds of expressions as well as with a new kind of expression: division of powers. The emphasis of this lesson is not on identifying and then memorizing rules, but rather on making sense of the structure of expressions, identifying parts of those expressions that can be written in a simpler form (e.g., writing `\frac{5}{5}` as `1`).

By Desmos Classroom

Learning goals: Learning Goals • Divide expressions involving exponents that have the same base. • Rewrite products of powers, quotients of powers, and powers of powers as single powers. Materials • Blank paper