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Game: CHOOSE OR LOSE
Aim: Choose the right answer; beat the clock
Method:
You start the game with 50 points. Each question has 2 to 4 answers. Select the correct answer before your time runs out to score points. Right answers are +10, wrong answers are -2, out of time is -5.
This is a timed game. Your final score is equal to the total score minus time taken.
8th grade / Number / Powers & Roots / Indices / Divide Indices
Indices are terms that have been raised to a power such as 5⁶ or y⁴. This means the term has been multiplied by itself that number of times.
6⁴ = 6 x 6 x 6 x 6 and y⁵ = y x y x y x y x y
So the term indice simply means a number or term raised to a power.
Indices with the same base can be divided by subtracting powers. So a³ and a⁶ have the same base "a", but x³ and y⁶ do not have the same base and cannot be simplified by subtracting powers.
To understand why dividing indices with the same base involves subtracting powers, consider x⁷ ÷ x⁴. If we expand both indices we get:
x x x x x x x x x x x x x
x x x x x x x
Since we know that x divided by x is 1, we can cancel terms top and bottom to simplify the expression leaving x x x x x.
x⁷ ÷ x⁴ = x³
So we can see that dividing x⁷ by x⁴ gives us x³. In general, you can divide indices with the same base by subtracting the powers.
If one or more of the terms is raised to a negative power, you should follow simple arithmetic rules to subtract the powers.
p⁻⁵ ÷ p³ = p⁻⁸
p⁻⁵ ÷ p⁻³ = p⁻²
If there are coefficients in front of the bases, divide the coefficients first and then subtract the powers.
15p⁵ ÷ 3p³ = 5p⁵
With our Choose or lose math game you will be practicing the topic "Divide Indices" from 8th grade / Number / Powers & Roots / Powers & Roots. The math in this game consists of 16 questions that ask you to divide indices with the same base by subtracting powers e.g. 6b⁵ ÷ 2b² = 3b³.
Our CHOOSE OR LOSE game is a simple activity to help secondary math learners and will improve the speed at which you can solve problems in the given topic. It does not rely on the learner typing in the answer. Rather, the learner must choose the correct answer from a list of 2, 3 or 4 similar answers.
CHOOSE OR LOSE encourages faster problem-solving for common and vital secondary math topics. CHOOSE OR LOSE is a timed game with a leaderboard for each topic at each of the 4 levels on offer. You can play the game with or without audio and robots.
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