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Laws of indices: positive integer powers
Lesson presentations and activities
A range of resources covering all aspects of indices up to GCSE. Includes many problem solving tasks, some adapted from Nrich, UKMT and Median websites. Worksheets at end for printing.
Reviews
Mibrahim5a year ago
Excellent Powerpoint.
Agaardv222 years ago
An excellent presentation with worksheets at the end. Pitched nicely for years 8 and 9 to access relatively easily. Builds up nicely without any need too much prior knowledge. Fabulous job!
aijiandu2 years ago
super useful! Thanks a lot for share..
Full lesson on laws of indices covering the basic laws of indices (fractional and negative indices are not covered).
The explanations of the laws of indices in the PowerPoint slides are adapted from the fantastic lesson by @finbutler999.
The support sheet is designed as a reference for when pupils are undertaking the main activity -- could be provided as reusable laminated sheets, or as a worksheet to be printed and provided for each pupil to make notes on and stick in their exercise books.
The Tarsia activity is one uploaded by @chuckieirish -- I gave the pupils the six-tile simplified version of this first and then the remainder of the tiles as an extension.
There are two plenaries -- the first involves sticking the posters on the wall around the room and asking pupils to add a post-it note to each with a question on it that simplifies to the given answer. The second is based on a question on the NRICH website.
Please do rate and review this resource -- I appreciate feedback!Reviews
missus064 years ago
kooldude4 years ago
Thank you.
ColinByrne1014 years ago
Excellent set of resources
Use the cooperative learning strategy ‘jigsaw’ where pupils learn one thing + then teach it to their group. I found that the laws on ‘alternative 4th law’ are best left til after 1st 4 are learnt. i fake text dot com produced the phone screens. The code breaker + indices ppt were found on TES, but I can’t find them again; thanks whoever you are! The tarsia was Mr Barton’s, I changed it to have 6 mistakes so that pupils can be given soln sheet + circle them. Task 4 – teams given flipchart paper to write the answer in the middle + then write corresponding questions , teams then rotate ie peer assess.
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dusk215 years ago
Only a few of the files work. A little disappointing as they looked/sounded really great.
sbatllor7 years ago
TES Resource Team7 years ago
Thank you for publishing your resource. It has been selected to be featured in a new secondary maths collection.
Practice questions, homeworks and assessments
The topic of Indices from the GCSE books of the Mathematics Enhancement Program. For information about these resources and an index for the whole collection please visit http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/CIMT.htm Keywords: Index, Indices, Law, Rule, Power, Integer, Standard Form, Ten, Positive, Negative, Large, Small, Decimal, Fractional, Scientific, Standard Index Notation, Factor, Multiple, Common, Prime, Lowest, Highest, HCF, LCM, Square, Cube, Root.
Reviews
Zak4204 years ago
brilliant!
BLUESKY215 years ago
very detailed worksheets and assessment material many thanks for sharing
adicamillo6 years ago
Thank you for sharing! Fantastic resource
Four different codebreakers (and jokes) ranging from simplifying numeric indices, moving to algebraic and then onto evaluating negative and fractional indices.
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zicothandi6 months ago
Fantastic codebreakers, thank you for sharing!
ezcoach4 years ago
Great quiz!
BenLed4 years ago
very nice activity to make students work out powers!
This was an idea I had in on the way to work one morning - Clive makes mistakes on his homework and you need to correct them, explaining the mistake he’s made in each case. I intend to use this as a plenary or starter to check learning etc. They should create discussion too. There are 5 different mistakes to correct on two separate sheets; number 2 cover negative and fractional indices.
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alisontodd195 years ago
clarelclarke5 years ago
Brilliant, a great tool and tome saver, thank you.
Nubeginns5 years ago
1st time trying out the Clumsy Clive resources, really looking forward to using it.
Fill in the blanks to simplify using the rules of indices. This should create some discussion in class regarding negative indices and how they could be written.
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switch6 years ago
Great as a recap starter.
badger55157 years ago
TES Resource Team7 years ago
Thank you for publishing your resource. It has been selected to be featured in a new secondary maths collection.
