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🧮 8th Grade · Math8.EE.A.1Unit 6: Exponents & scientific notation

Zero and negative exponents

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🎯 Objective: Students explain zero and negative exponents with patterns.

Lesson outline

  1. Pattern table.
  2. Practice.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: 2⁻³.

Lesson 2 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

8.EE.A.1

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 8 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Apply exponent properties
  • Use scientific notation for very large and small numbers

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Exponents & scientific notation”

  1. Exponent rules
  2. Zero and negative exponents
  3. Scientific notation
  4. Operations in scientific notation

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