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Simplify Expressions with Rational Exponents

Related Topics:
Common Core (The Real Number System)
Common Core for Mathematics



Examples, solutions, videos, and lessons to help High School students learn how to rewrite expressions involving radicals and rational exponents using the properties of exponents.

  • Convert radical notation to rational exponent notation, and vice-versa.
  • Extend the properties of integer exponents to rational exponents and use them to simplify expressions.
Common Core: HSN-RN.A.2

Radical Equivalent to Rational Exponents
Convert Rational Exponents and Radical Expressions



Exponents and Parentheses Simplifying Expressions Containing Rational Exponents, part 1
How to simplify an expression with rational (or fractional) exponents. Simplifying Expressions Containing Rational Exponents, part 2 Simplifying Expressions Involving Exponents
Basic procedures for simplifying expressions which contain exponents. Simplify Expressions with Rational Exponents
This video provides two examples of how to simplify expressions with rational or fractional exponents. Simplify an Expression with Rational Exponents and Write in Radical Form
This videos provides an example of how to simplify an expression with rational exponents and then write in radical form. Simplify an Expression with Negative Rational Exponents and Write in Radical Form
This videos provides an example of how to simplify an expression with negative rational exponents and then write in radical form. Multiplying Variables with Rational Exponents - Basic Example 1 Multiplying Variables with Rational Exponents - Basic Examples 2.

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