1. Powers and Exponents
Lesson 1-2

2. Vocabulary Factors Base Exponent Evaluate Expanded Form
Powers
Squared
Cubed
Evaluate
Expanded Form
Exponential Form

3. Location, Location, Location…
Exponential form
Product
Exponent
Expanded form
Base

4. Exponents and Powers Exponents expresses the power of the term
Power(s) is the number of bases you have to multiply together, NOT how many times you multiply.
Example:
NOT : 4, times 4, times 4, times 4

5. Powers Squared To the second power How many dimensions in a square
Area
Cubed
To the third power
How many dimensions in a cube?
Volume

6. Writing in… Expanded form (writing as a product of the same factor)
An expression without exponents
EX: 5 x 5 x 5
Exponential form
Formed with a Base and an Exponent
EX:

7. Evaluate
Fancy word for SOLVE!
Find the answer.

8. Examples
Write in exponential form
3 • 3 • 3 • 3 =
4 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 5 • 5 • 5 =
6 • 6 • 6 • 7 • 7 =

9. Examples
Write in expanded form

10. Homework
Worksheet
Practice 1-2, # ALL, omit 32.