Indices Power Rules Card Sort Match Group Table Pair Magenta Activity Answers & Differentiated WS

An exercise for small groups (pairs or 4’s) to play designed to refresh, discover, reinforce, remind students of the indices rules. You’ll need to print enough resources for the number of groups you have in your class.

There are only a few rules to learn but these cards have 20 rules in total as they have variants and extensions of the basic rules.

There are 4 “baseplates”. Print the “baseplates” out on to A4 card. For ease I suggest 4 different colours of card.

Print the answer card out on A4 card (2 sheets per page) or prepare to display on your projection screen. (I suggest printing several copies of the answers and so each table can self check as and when they finish.

Print the “CardsRight” out onto A4 sticky labels (3 x 7 = 21 per sheet). Stick these labels onto blank playing cards (purchased from your chosen education supplier - I got mine from YPO). Alternatively print on to A4 card and cut out using a guillotine.

Give each group a full set of 20 playing cards and a copy of each base plate. They then match the playing cards to the base plates.

Alternatively, give each group one baseplate card at a time. However it doesn’t take them too long.

This can be made significantly harder by printing the “CardsRight - Harder” as these don’t have which base plate they go on to.

Afterwards there are a variety of graded worksheets to reinforce the above.

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