Curriculum placement
Grade 8. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Laws of exponents
Simplify expressions with integer exponents
Problem types
- Evaluate a negative power
- Multiply powers with the same base
- Divide powers with the same base
- Raise a power to a power
- Raise a monomial with a coefficient to a power
- Complete a quotient of powers
- Raise a monomial with a negative coefficient to a power
Builds on
- Adding and subtracting signed numbers
- Multiplying and dividing signed numbers
- Dividing fractions
- Whole-number powers
- Powers of 10 and place value · Earlier idea
Multiplying 10 to the power a by 10 to the power b gives 10 to the power a + b, the first exponent law, shown with place value.
Leads to
Related skills
- Simplifying complex fractions · Shared foundations
- Solving absolute-value equations · Shared foundations
- Approximating roots · Shared foundations
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