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Water Testing with Powers

Write and evaluate numerical expressions with whole-number exponents in a community water-quality lab, including order of operations and error analysis.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.EE.A.1

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 14 questions
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Details

Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 6
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students write repeated multiplication as numerical expressions with whole-number exponents.
  • Students evaluate numerical expressions with exponents using the order of operations.
  • Students use powers to represent and solve water-quality lab planning problems.

How to use

Use after introducing exponent notation. Have students show intermediate calculations on separate paper and discuss the final error-analysis response.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.EE.A.1

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

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Water Testing with Powers

Write and evaluate expressions for a community science lab.

Read and Write Powers

The community science lab uses powers in its water-testing records. An exponent tells how many times to use the base as a factor.

1.
Rewrite 6 × 6 × 6 × 6 as a single power. Identify its base and exponent.

Base:  ; exponent:  

2.
Which expression uses an exponent to rewrite 7 × 7 × 7 + 5 without changing its value?
  • A. 3⁷ + 5
  • B. 7³ + 5
  • C. (7 + 5)³
  • D. 7 × 3 + 5
3.
A record contains the expression 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3. Complete the exponent form, then evaluate.

2 raised to the power  , multiplied by 3, equals  .

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