Powers and Indices for Foundation Level - With Answers

I wrote this for a foundation class that I had once - It covers everything that I wanted to emphasize at lower levels. I then found it very useful to use parts of it for Key stage 3 too

Question one is looking at the basic ideas of indices - I did this as a mental exercise and stressed the powers of zero and one.

Question two is a little more demanding and I often used this as a paired exercise and asked the students to check their answers on the calculators.

Question three looks at the powers of a half, a third and negative one - nothing harder.

Question four is all about the 3 rules of indices

In total there are nearly 80 questions so this could take a full lesson, or a homework - I hope you find it useful.

Homework sheets are included

Answers are included.