{"id":46881,"date":"2024-01-24T18:15:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=46881"},"modified":"2024-01-24T18:15:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:15:36","slug":"math-exponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-exponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Math: exponents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring math, exponents may appear as early as middle school. The tutor gives an idea.<\/h2>\n<p>\nAn exponent, in most textbooks, is signified by a superscript such as 3<sup>5<\/sup>. This means &#8220;3 exponent 5&#8221; which is 3x3x3x3x3 = 243.<\/p>\n<p>\nTypically, the calculator key meaning exponent looks like <span style=\"background-color:black; color: white; font-size:120%\">x<sup>y<\/sup><\/span> or <span style=\"background-color:black; color: white; font-size:120%\">y<sup>x<\/sup><\/span>. In the first case, to enter 3<sup>5<\/sup> will likely be 3 <span style=\"background-color:black; color: white; font-size:120%\">x<sup>y<\/sup><\/span> 5.<\/p>\n<p>\nThat said, there are other ways to display exponents and also to enter them on a calculator.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring math, exponents may appear as early as middle school. The tutor gives an idea. An exponent, in most textbooks, is signified by a superscript such as 35. This means &#8220;3 exponent 5&#8221; which is 3x3x3x3x3 = 243. Typically, the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-exponents\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math: exponents<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46881"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46887,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46881\/revisions\/46887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}