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Index patterns
Students begin this lesson sequence by discussing the number line, ensuring students understand its use. Then students are introduced to exponents both negative and postive, observing how this can alter an answer. Students work collaboratively identifying patterns when changing the power and the base. Students then move on to cube numbers completing similar tasks.
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| Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Content knowledge, Student task, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Planning support |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Explicit teaching, Feedback, Questioning, Setting goals, Structuring lessons, Worked examples |
| Keywords | powers, base, cube, integers, indices, negative, postive, exponent, squares |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | ICT general capability, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Number, Build understanding, Apply understanding |
| Topics | Indices, Operating with number, Patterns and algebra, Addition and subtraction, Multiplication and division, Place value |
| AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMNA182
Use index notation with numbers to establish the index laws with positive integral indices and the zero index
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| National numeracy learning progression |
Additive strategies
Number patterns and algebraic thinking - NPA6 |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Inquiry Maths |
| Copyright | © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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