MA.6.3.3

Exponents 6th Grade

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: MA.6.3.3
Evaluate positive rational numbers and integers with natural number exponents.

An exponent indicates how many times a base value is to be multiplied by itself.

An exponent is sometimes referred to as a power or an index.

base →

4^{^{2 ← exponent}}

When a value has an exponent of 2, the value is often referred to as squared.

When a value has an exponent of 3, the value is often referred to as cubed.

{(\frac{1}{3})}^{2} = \frac{1}{3} \times \frac{1}{3} = \frac{1}{9}

Exponents

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: MA.6.3.3

Evaluate positive rational numbers and integers with natural number exponents.

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