Activities about exponent

Want to earn $150,000? - Mersenne prime search

What's a Mersenne prime? How hard could it be to find the next one? Why are there only 50 known Mersenne primes? What's with $150,000?

Algebra Number Sense Grades 5–HS

Super Bowl ads and scientific notation

The Super Bowl is over now and all of the ads have been seen. Let your students revisit and reflect on the interesting commercials with this scientific notation...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 7–HS

Will the new iPhone sales be huge?

Apple just announced their new, 10 th anniversary, iPhones, the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X. These phones will soon be in stores, the iPhone 8 comes out...

Algebra Ratio and Proportion Grades 8–HS

Growth of Facebook

In this activity, students analyze and graph the numbers and decide if Facebook's growth in the first 20 years has been linear, exponential, meteoric, or something else. Will...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 7–HS

Lifespan of a meme, the Harlem Shake

Five friends who skateboard and video tape made up a strange dance one afternoon and filmed it on February 2nd (look it up on youtube!). Now the whole...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 7–HS

Fast Growing Plant

This activity/post is a little different than our usual posts. We look at a particular math concept and consider how to use context, models and CCSS math practices...

Algebra Number Sense Grades 8–HS