MATH 40B

LESSON 3

QUESTIONS FROM
HOMEWORK
About 10-15 minuets
2

MATH JOURNAL
Your

brother just received this

bill in the mail and he cant
understand how the credit
card company came up with
the figures that they did.
Using what you learned about
positive and negative
numbers write an equation for
the summary line and explain
how the credit card company
arrived at their figures. Why
do you think they choose to
represent payments as
negative numbers and debts
as positive numbers? Hint try
thinking about it from their

NUMBER OF THE DAY

You work at Half Slice Pizzeria and the first 3

orders of the day are:

1 pepperoni, 2 sausage and 1 combination

pizza.

6 cheese, 4 sausage and 1 pepperoni pizza.

5 combination, 2 cheese and 3 sausage

pizza.

If the other pizza maker has already made 2

combination, 1 cheese and 4 sausage pizzas
how many of each pizza do you have to
make?

ROOTS, EXPONENTS
& INTEGER REVIEW
Slide content from:
Contemporarys Number Power 3
Contemporarys Number Power 4
Contemporarys Number Power 5
Contemporarys Achieving TABE Success in Mathematics
Level A & D
Contemporarys Top 50 Math Skills for GED Success

Advance to see
the answers for
the highlighted
cells

SQUARES

eight squared
10 x 10

64
100

SQUARES

Ind
e
car x
d

ACTIVITY

EMPower Algebraic Thinking page 144

Student Book

25
2. 5
3. 10
4. 1
1.

5 =

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4
2. 16
3. 8
4. 12
1.

4 =

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GROUP ACTIVITY

Activity Folder: MA40B W2 L3 - Square Roots

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VOCABULARY

Base:
the number being multiplied in a power. In 23, 2
is the base; 3 is the exponent.

Exponent: a number that tells how many times the

base (of a power) is written in the product. For
example, in 52, 2 is the exponent and means that there
are two 5s in the product, 5 x 5.

Square of a Number: The product of a number

multiplied by itself. Example: 82 = 8 x 8 = 64

Square Root ( symbol) one of two equal factors of a

number. Example

5 means that 5 is either positive or negative plus or

SQUARE ROOT

13

Ind
e
car x
d

The number 25 has two square roots. To find the square

root first ask yourself what number multiplied by itself
equals 25?

5 is a square root of 25 (52 = 5 x 5 = 25)

-5 is also a square root of 25 [(-5)2 = -5 x -5 = 25]

Thus, = +5 and -5, or = 5.

Remember: Each perfect square has

both a positive and a negative square
root.

14

2.
3.
4.
1.

13
9
6
3

15

2.
3.
4.
1.

39
23
9
3

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SOLVING PROBLEMS WITH

SQUARE ROOTS

In this example you can take the square root

of both the numerator and the denominator.

In this example you can take the square

root of the denominator but the fraction
cannot be reduced any further.

17

1.

9/8

2.

3/14

3.

3/7

4.

3/8

18

1.

2.

11

3.

4.

12

/12

/4
/12

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EXPONENTS

Ind
e
car x
d

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HAVE STUDENTS WORK

INDIVIDUALLY OR IN SMALL GROUPS
TO COMPLETE THIS TABLE

Product

Base/Expone
nt

In Words

m2
(-1)(-1)

-1 to the second power or -1

squared
53
7 to the fourth power or 7 cubed

-8(8)(8)(8)(8)
()

COMPLETE THE CHART

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Product

Base/Expone
nt

In Words

(m)(m)

m2

(-1)(-1)

(-1)2

-1 to the second power or -1

squared

(5)(5)(5)

53

5 to the third power or 5

cubed

(7)(7)(7)(7)

74

7 to the fourth power

-8(8)(8)(8)(8)

-85

m to the second power or m

squared

8 to the fifth power

(the negative is not part of the
base)
Use clickers for the following 5 slides
to test your knowledge on solving
2
() ()problems on()
exponent
your own. to the second power or
squared

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ACTIVITY

Have students complete page 145 in the

EMPower Algebra Thinking student book

23

(-2) =
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

-4
4
2
-2
0

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-2 =
-8
2. 8
3. -16
4. 16
1.

25

0.2 =

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

.4
.8
.04
.08
.008

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-30 =
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

1
-1
-3
3
0

27

2/3
2. 4/6
3. 4/9
4. 8/9
1.

CLASS ACTIVITY

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Activity Folder: MA40B W2 L3 - Exponents

Rules Book

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EXPONENT RULES BOOK

COVER

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PAGES 1 AND 2

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PAGES 3 AND 4

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EXPONENT RULES
EXPLAINED

Simplify (x3)(x4)
To simplify this, I can think in terms of what those exponents mean. "To the
third" means "multiplying three copies" and "to the fourth" means "multiplying
four copies". Using this fact, I can "expand" the two factors, and then work
backwards to the simplified form:
(x3)(x4) = (xxx)(xxxx)
= xxxxxxx
= x7
Note that x7 also equals x(3+4). This demonstrates the first basic exponent rule:

Whenever you multiply two terms with the same base, you
can add the exponents:
( x m ) ( x n ) = x( m + n )
However, we can NOT simplify (x4)(y3), because the bases are
different: (x4)(y3) = xxxxyyy = (x4)(y3). Nothing combines.

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EXPONENT RULES
EXPLAINED

When you divide terms with like bases you subtract the exponent of
the denominator from the exponent of the numerator.

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SOLVING PROBLEMS WITH

EXPONENTS

Find the value for each exponent first

and then solve the problem.

Remember the rules for Order of

Operation
82 31 =

64 3 =

61

50 + (-3)2 + 41 =

1+9+4=

14

+=

8 x 16 =

128

x 25 =

or 3

or 2

()2 + ()1 =
Advance slide
to see how to
solve and
answers

23 x 42 =
()3 x 52 =
=

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Have students try to answer the following

question, then watch the video.
Which of these square numbers also happens to
be the sum of two smaller square numbers?
A) 16

B) 25

C)36

D) 49

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbX44YSsQ2I
Hit the arrow
key to get the
answer and a
question for
discussion

Answer: 32 + 42 = 9 + 16 = 25
Why do you think so may people answered A) 16
and not B) 25?

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6
2. 3
3. -3
4. -6
1.

10 4 =
0

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-125
2. 125
3. -200
4. 200
1.

-2 X 5 =
3

(1/3)2 (2/3)3

39

/8

1.

2.

3.

27

4.

/3
/72

/243

(-2) (-3) + 2 =
2

40

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

-21
32
25
33
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