Laws of Exponents

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for powers and exponents rules? Well bingo! Look no further as Laws of Exponents Activity Puzzles, for CCSS 8.EE.1, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 8th grade middle school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotation, review game exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention, or rti. It can also be used as a quiz, drill or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is in homeschool or given this task as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these at home to study and improve their skills.

This puzzle set includes 20 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a foldable bin or tub for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a craft project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a spiral notebook or journal as a model reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

It covers finding the equivalent expression of the given numerical expression and calculating the answer. By solving the problems to sort and match the puzzle pieces, students can gain confidence in an important and sometimes challenging skill. Your students will love to practice and learn to develop strategies to learn the laws of exponents with this resource!

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try!

Relevant Grade 8 Common Core Standard 8.EE.A.1
Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions.