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Class Trip Costs in Powers

Practice writing and evaluating numerical expressions with whole-number exponents while checking a class trip budget.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.EE.A.1

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1 Common Core standard
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14 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 6
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students write numerical expressions with whole-number exponents to represent repeated multiplication and trip costs.
Students evaluate numerical expressions with exponents using the order of operations.
Students compare budget options and explain errors in evaluating powers.

How to use

Have students work without a calculator and show intermediate steps on separate paper. Discuss how parentheses and exponents affect the budget calculations.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.EE.A.1

Write and evaluate numerical expressions that use whole-number exponents.

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Class Trip Costs in Powers

Write and evaluate exponent expressions for bus travel, meals, and museum admission.

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Use exponents to describe repeated factors. A power tells how many times to use the base as a factor.

A class is planning a museum trip. There are 16 students and 2 adults. Everyone needs one meal and one museum ticket. The bus has one flat rental fee. All prices include any fees.

The bus rental quote is 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 dollars. Which expression writes this amount using an exponent?