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Laws of exponents inquiry
This prompt looks at the product of index numbers with the same base. Students look at the connections between the numbers, make predictions and generalise. The resource includes classroom examples, teacher notes and guided questions.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks Student activities Teaching resource
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Indices
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8N02
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- Inquiry Maths
- Copyright
- © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- product indices index laws
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