Exponents and radicals

Outcomes

In this course you will learn how to:

1. Use exponential notation and exponential identities.
2. Multiply exponents.
3. Divide exponents.
4. Raise a power to a power.
5. Change fractional exponents to radical form.
6. Simplify surds.

This is a simple video which describes how indices problems are solved using simplified laws.

This video explores how to transpose a formula.

In this section, you will:

• Evaluate square roots.
• Use the product rule to simplify square roots.
• Use the quotient rule to simplify square roots.
• Add and subtract square roots.
• Rationalize denominators.
• Use rational roots.

Exercises requiring expressions to be re-written in 'Simple Radical Form'.

Use the dynamic worksheet to practice simplifying expressions with fractional exponents, rewriting them as radicals.

Three activities which illustrate the law of exponents.

Online problems where the student is required to simplify the expression using the product property of exponents.

An activity explaining the properties of exponents.