Explain the relationship between multiplication and exponents.

Multiplication represents repeated addition, while exponents represent repeated multiplication.

Simplifying Integer Exponents

Name: Simplifying Integer Exponents
Author: Insta~Lesson

8th Grade · Math · 45 min· 8.ee.a.1

I can explain how the properties of integer exponents simplify expressions.

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Exponents represent repeated multiplication, just like multiplication represents repeated addition.
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When raising something to the second power, we are squaring that number; raising to the third power is cubing that number.
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When multiplying terms with the same base, we add the exponents; when dividing, we subtract the exponents.

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