1. Get out your notebooks! You will be able to multiply, divide, and simplify monomial expressions involving powers. You will be able to add, subtract, and multiply polynomials Today’s Objectives:

2. Warm Up

3. Simplifying Monomials Simplifying is an extremely important part of mathematics. Simplification Rules: 1.There are no powers of powers 2.Each base appears exactly once 3.All fractions are reduced 4.There are no negative exponents.

4. Examples Simplification Rules: 1.There are no powers of powers 2.Each base appears exactly once 3.All fractions are reduced 4.There are no negative exponents.

5. Examples Simplification Rules: 1.There are no powers of powers 2.Each base appears exactly once 3.All fractions are reduced 4.There are no negative exponents.

6. You Try!!! Simplification Rules: 1.There are no powers of powers 2.Each base appears exactly once 3.All fractions are reduced 4.There are no negative exponents.

7. Polynomial Expression

8. Examples

9. Distributive Property

10. Examples

12. Multiplying Polynomials

13. You Try!

14. HOMEWORK Lesson 5.1 Pg. 307 #’s 28-37