Day 20: Exponent Charts

Regular Math Lesson Objective: Create a chart with comparisons to standard form, expanded form, and exponential form with positive and negative exponents

Regular Math Standard: 8.EE.1 Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions. 

Regular Math Lesson Sequence:

1. Warm up problem was essentially the objective. Pictures are below. Overall this really clarified the errors that were seen on the tickets to leave and students were able to acknowledge that negative exponents did not lead to negative values (picture below). 
2. QSSQ
3. Students logged into TenMarks for the first time. This whole process takes a long time because it takes forever to students to get their Chromebooks out of the Chromebook cart. Every minute counts when class is only 23 minutes on half-days. 

Honors Math Objective: Dependent on what the students did in class

Honors Math Standard: Dependent on what the students did in class

Honors Math Lesson Sequence:

1. Students login to TenMarks. I had one student call out which students should be taking a Chromebook as this was taking place so that I could pass back exit tickets from the previous class. Again every minute mattered this day - although this was the long block at 40 minutes. After students logged into TenMarks successfully, I gave them a choice among three things.
2. Weekly Quiz (this was choice number one)
3. Quiz Retakes
4. Visual Pattern number 3 to Step 199. One student solved this in a unique way by adding the numbers 1 through 25, 26 through 50, 51 through 75, and 76 through 99. She then just multiplied those sums by two and added all the hundreds. 
5. Pass out textbooks for students to take home as a resource.