This is a game to help students practice the exponent rules. The students group into threes. One student is chosen to be the power ranger and they have to go away and practice exponent rules. The remaining group members solve three exponent problems incorrectly on purpose. Their power rangers come back and have to find the mistakes and explain the correct way to do the problems.
Card 1Try to purposely solve these problems incorrectly. Then
check your answers against the answer key on the back. If you dont
have the right answer, then you did well. (You may try just
actually solving the problem as best you can. That way the mistakes
you make will be genuine mistakes.) 1.) Simplify:
2.) Simplify:
3.) Rewrite without parentheses:
ANSWERS 1.) 2.) 3.) Give your power ranger a grade between A and
D. Explain why you gave your ranger the grade you did. You will
want to base your grade on the following: (a) Did they correctly
identify the mistake in the problem? (b) Did they arrive at the
correct answer ultimately? (c) Did they explain what they were
doing clearly?
Card 2Try to purposely solve these problems incorrectly. Then
check your answers against the answer key on the back. If you dont
have the right answer, then you did well. (You may try just
actually solving the problem as best you can. That way the mistakes
you make will be genuine mistakes.) 1.) Simplify:
2.) Rewrite without parentheses:
3.) Rewrite with parentheses:
ANSWERS 1.) 2.) 3.) Give your power ranger a grade between A and
D. Explain why you gave your ranger the grade you did. You will
want to base your grade on the following: (a) Did they correctly
identify the mistake in the problem? (b) Did they arrive at the
correct answer ultimately? (c) Did they explain what they were
doing clearly?
Card 3Try to purposely solve these problems incorrectly. Then
check your answers against the answer key on the back. If you dont
have the right answer, then you did well. (You may try just
actually solving the problem as best you can. That way the mistakes
you make will be genuine mistakes.) 1.) Rewrite without
parentheses:
2.) Rewrite without parentheses:
3.) Rewrite without parentheses:
ANSWERS 1.) 2.) 3.) Give your power ranger a grade between A and
D. Explain why you gave your ranger the grade you did. You will
want to base your grade on the following: (d) Did they correctly
identify the mistake in the problem? (e) Did they arrive at the
correct answer ultimately? (f) Did they explain what they were
doing clearly?
Power Ranger Practice Problems1.) Simplify:
2.) Rewrite without parentheses:
3.) Rewrite with parentheses:
4.) Rewrite without parentheses:
5.) Rewrite without parentheses
ANSWERS 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.)
