Negative Exponents and the Laws of Exponents

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Objectives

Students know the definition of a number raised to a negative exponent.
Students simplify and write equivalent expressions that contain negative exponents.

Prior Knowledge

ExponentsNotation

45 mins 8.EE.A.1

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