Please note: This site contains links to websites not controlled by the Australian Government or ESA. Read more in the Terms of Use.

Indices inquiry

Students begin this lesson sequence by discussing the number line, ensuring students understand its use. Then students are introduced to exponents both negative and positive, 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.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8
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
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 (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M8N02 Establish and apply the exponent laws with positive integer exponents and the zero-exponent, using exponent notation with numbers
Copyright details
Organisation	Inquiry Maths
Copyright	© Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.