Teacher Pay Teachers: Unit Download: The downloadable folder contains printable notes and worksheets as pdfs. It also includes ExamView files for quizzes and worksheets for each lesson (all of these questions are dynamic so you can change the values of each question or add additional questions with a click of a button but you must have the ExamView software).
7.1 Exponents
Explanation:
Website article: Why is anything to the zero power 1?
Khan video: Negative exponents (8th grade)
Khan video: More negative exponent intuition (8th grade)
Khan article: Negative exponents review (8th grade)
Mythbusters: paper folding
Practice Problems:
Khan Exercise: Negative exponents (8th grade)
IXL: Algebra 1: W.2 Exponents with decimal and fractional bases
7.2 Operations of Powers
Explanation:
Khan video: Exponent properties with products (8th: whole number exponents)
Khan video: Exponent properties with parentheses (8th: whole number exponents)
Khan video: Exponent properties with quotients (8th: whole number exponents)
Khan article: Exponent properties review (8th: whole number exponents)
Khan video: Multiplying & dividing powers (integer exponents)
Khan video: Powers of products & quotients (integer exponents) (honors)
Practice Problems:
Khan Exercise: Multiply powers (8th: whole number exponents)
Khan Exercise: Powers of powers (8th: whole number exponents)
Khan Exercise: Divide powers (8th: whole number exponents)
Khan Exercise: Multiply & divide powers (integer exponents)
Khan Exercise: Powers of products & quotients (integer exponents) - honors
Khan Exercise: Powers of products & quotients (structured practice) (algebra basics) - honors
Khan Exercise: Properties of exponents challenge (integer exponents) - honors
IXL: Algebra 1: W.4 Multiplication with exponents (HQD)
IXL: Algebra 1: W.5 Division with exponents (9SS)
IXL: Algebra 1: W.6 Multiplication and division with exponents (HPK)
IXL: Algebra 1: W.7 Power rule (RWY)
IXL: Algebra 1: W.8 Evaluate expressions using properties of exponents (LRR)
IXL: Algebra 1: W.9 Identify equivalent expressions involving exponents I (EUF)
IXL: Algebra 1: W.10 Identify equivalent expressions involving exponents II (RKA)
7.3 Exponential Functions: Characteristics & Graph
Explanation
Khan video: Intro to exponential functions
Khan video: Exponential function graph
Khan video: Graphs of exponential growth
Khan video: Exponential decay intro
Khan video: Initial value & common ratio of exponential functions
Khan video: Graphing exponential growth & decay
Practice Problems
Khan exercise: Graphs of exponential growth
Khan exercise: Graphing exponential growth & decay
Khan exercise: Exponential growth vs. decay
Desmos Activity: Polygraph: Exponentials (teacher use)
Desmos Activity: Graph Exponential Functions by Transformations: dilation
IXL: Algebra 1: X. Graph exponential functions (5QL)
7.4 Find the Equation of an Exponential Function
Explanation
Khan video: Writing exponential functions from tables
Khan video: Writing exponential functions from graphs
Khan video: Analyzing graphs of exponential functions
Khan video: Analyzing tables of exponential functions (honors)
Khan video: Analyzing graphs of exponential functions: negative initial value
Khan video: Modeling with basic exponential functions word problem
Khan video: Converting recursive & explicit forms of geometric
Practice Problems
Khan Exercise: Exponential functions from tables & graphs
Khan exercise: Explicit formulas for geometric sequences (only if converting to f(x)=a*b^x is taught)
Khan exercise: Converting recursive & explicit forms of geometric sequences (only if converting to f(x)=a*b^x is taught)
7.5 Find the Equation of Linear and Exponential Functions
Explanation
Khan video: Exponential vs. linear growth
Khan article: Warmup: exponential vs. linear growth
Khan video: Exponential vs. linear models: verbal
Khan video: Sequence word problems
Practice Problems
Khan exercise: Warmup: exponential vs. linear growth (Algebra 2018)
Khan exercise: Exponential vs. linear growth
Khan exercise: Sequence word problems - geometric include percent (extra credit for honors)
Desmos Activity: Avi and Benita's Repair Shop (teacher use)
Desmos Activity: What Comes Next?
7.6 Simple and Compound Interest
Explanation
Practice Problems
7.7 Exponential Growth and Decay with Rates
Explanation
Practice Problems
IXL: Algebra Y. New: Write exponential functions: word problems
IXL: Algebra Y.7 Exponential growth and decay: word problems
Khan exercise: Writing functions with exponential decay
Khan exercise: Connecting exponential graphs with contexts
Khan exercise: Exponential expressions word problems (numerical)
Khan exercise: Exponential expressions word problems (algebraic)
Khan exercise: Interpret exponential expressions word problems
IXL: Algebra 1: X.5 Exponential growth and decay: word problems (UKG)
7.8 Solve Exponential Equations
Explanation:
Khan video: Solving exponential equations using exponent properties (Algebra 2)
Khan video: Solving exponential equations using exponent properties (advanced) (Algebra 2)
Khan video: Exponential vs. linear growth over time
Practice Problems
Khan exercise: Solve exponential equations using exponent properties (Algebra 2)
Khan exercise: Solve exponential equations using exponent properties (advanced) (Algebra 2)
Khan exercise: Exponential vs. linear growth over time
IXL: Algebra 2: T.4 Solve exponential equations by rewriting the base YQY
IXL: Precalculus: F.3 Solve exponential equations by rewriting the base 5LY
7.9 Model Exponential Functions
Explanation
Khan video: Exponential vs. linear models: table
Desmos: Temperature of Tea
Desmos: tax brackets
Khan Article: Exponential growth & decay: FAQ
Practice Problems
Khan exercise: Exponential vs. linear models
Khan exercise: Linear vs. exponential growth: from data (use desmos to help with regression in y1~a*b^x1 not y1~a*b^(x1/k)
Desmos Activity: Predicting Movie Ticket Prices (teacher use)
Desmos Activity: Game, Set, Flat (teacher use)
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