The year has begun and we're off to a great start! We started the year by discussing rules, expectations, and the Memorable Mathematicians project (take a look at the page on the website for more information). We then started off our curriculum talking about exponents and square roots. Students went over what they learned last year about powers, including multiplying and dividing powers, evaluating the power of a power, and evaluating the power of a product. We also discussed what negative exponents are, and practiced using them. Students then discussed the connection between square roots and exponents. They took a look at what happens when you perform operations on square roots, and used what they noticed about multiplication to simplify square roots. Next week, students will be applying this knowledge of square roots when they work with the Pythagorean theorem, after it's introduced with a hands on activity.
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