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Mathematics
Quarter 2 – Module 6:
Understanding Numbers Expressed
in Exponential Notation

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Quarter 2 – Module 6: Understanding Numbers Expressed in Exponential Notation
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Mathematics
Quarter 2 – Module 6:
Understanding Numbers
Expressed in Exponential
Notation

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 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
master the skills in expressing numbers in exponential notation. The scope of this
module permits it to be used in many different learning situations. The language
used recognizes your diverse vocabulary level. The lessons are arranged to follow
the standard sequence of the course. But the order in which you read them can be
changed to correspond with the textbook you are now using.

The module is divided into two lessons, namely:

• Lesson 1 – Describing the Exponent and the Base in a Number Expressed
in Exponential Notation
• Lesson 2 – Giving the Value of Numbers Expressed in Exponential Notation

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. identify the exponent and the base in a number expressed in

exponential notation;
2. describe the exponent and the base in a number expressed in
exponential notation (M6NS-IIf-146); and

3. give the value of numbers expressed in exponential notation.

(M6NS-IIf-147).

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 What I Know

Read each item carefully. Then choose the letter of the correct answer. Write the
answers on your answer sheet.
1) In 176, the number 17 is called ___________.
A. base B. exponent C. power D. notation
2) The number that indicates how many times the base is used as a factor in an
exponential notation is known as ___________.
A. base B. exponent C. notation D. exponential
3) Which is the shorter way of writing 55 x 55 x 55 x 55 x 55 x 55?
A. 55 B. 56 C. 655 D. 556
4) The correct way of reading the exponential notation 45 is ___________.
5

A. 5 to the power of 45 C. 45 to the power of 5

B. 5 to the 45 power
th D. 45 to the 55th power
5) How will the repeated multiplication 14 x 14 x 14 x 14 x 14 x 14 x 14 be
expressed in exponential notation?
A. 147 B. 714 C. 146 D. 614
6) Which of the following statements describes the difference between 711
and 117?
A. In 711, 11 is the base and 7 is the exponent while in 117, 7 is the
base and 11 is the exponent.
B. In 711, 11 is the exponent and 7 is the base while in 117, 7 is the base
and 11 is the exponent.
C. In 711, 7 is used as a factor 11 times while in 117, 11 is used as a
factor 7 times.
D. In 711, 11 is used as a factor 7 times while in 117, 7 is used as a factor
11 times.
7) What will be the exponent when the repeated multiplication 87 x 87 x 87 x
87 x 87 be expressed in exponential notation?
A. 8 B. 7 C. 6 D. 5
8) What is meant by the exponential notation 1153?
A. 115 as the exponent will be multiplied by 3
B. 115 as the base will be used as a factor 3 times
C. 3 as the exponent will be multiplied by 115
D. 3 as the base will be used as a factor 115 times
9) Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. In 3004, number 4 is the base and 300 is the exponent.
B. The exponential notation 3004 has a base of 30 and exponent of 4.
C. In 3004, 4 will be used as a factor 300 times.
D. The exponential notation 3004 means 300 x 300 x 300 x 300.
10) Dina is holding a card with the repeated multiplication as shown below.

39 x 39 x 39 x 39 x 39 x 39 x 39 x 39 x 39 x 39
Which is the equivalent exponential notation for it?
A. 397 B. 398 C. 399 D. 3910

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 Describing the Exponent
Lesson and the Base in a Number
1 Expressed in Exponential
Notation
In your previous grade, you have learned multiplying a number by itself several
times. This process can be expressed in a shorthand way and this is what you will
learn in this lesson.

What’s In

Find each product. Write the answers on your answer sheet.

1) 3x3x3x3=

2) 7x7x7=

3) 2x2x2x2x2x2=

4) 9 x9=

5) 4x4x4x4x4=

What’s New

Do you know how to square a number? How important do you think is acquiring
this skill?
Let’s work on the following problem to find out.

Each side of a square is 4 centimeters long. Find the area of the square.

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 What is It

To find the area of the square:

4 cm Area of the square = side x side

= 4 cm x 4 cm
= 16 cm2

We can write 4 x 4 as 42 .

2
4
exponent
base

4 is called the base, which is the number used as a factor.

2 is called the exponent, which says how many times the base is used as a factor.
42 is an example of a number written in exponential notation.
We use exponential notation as a shorter way of writing repeated multiplication.

42 is read as “4 to the second power”, “4 raised to the power of 2”, “the square of 4”,
or “4 squared”.

Now, how about a cube of a whole number? Let’s try the following example.

A cube has edges 6 centimeters long. What is its volume?

To find the volume of the cube:

Volume of the cube = 6 cm x 6 cm x 6 cm

= 216 cm3

6 x 6 x 6 is called the cube of 6.

We can write 6 x 6 x 6 as 63 .
6 is the base. 3 is the exponent.
63 is read as:
6 cubed
the cube of 6
6 to the third power
6 raised to the power of 3

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Let us look at more examples.

5 is the base. 4 is the exponent.

54 is read as:
5 to the fourth power
5 raised to the power of 4

54 means 5 x 5 x 5 x 5.

3 is the base. 5 is the exponent.

35 is read as:
3 to the fifth power
3 raised to the power of 5

35 means 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3.

Factored Form Exponential Form Base Exponent

1) 12 x 12 x 12 x 12 x 12 x 12 126 12 6
2) 8x8x8x8x8x8x8 87 8 7
3) 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2 28 2 8
4) 4x4x4x4x4x4x4x4x4 49 4 9
5) 7x7x7x7x7x7x7x7x7x7 710 7 10

What’s More

Complete the table. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Exponential
Factored Form Base Exponent
Notation
1) 2x2x2x2x2x2x2
2) 4x4x4x4x4
3) 10 x 10 x 10
4) 13 x 13 x 13 x 13
5) 9x9x9x9x9x9

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 What I Have Learned

• A number expressed in exponential notation is composed of a base and

an exponent.
• It is a “shorthand” way of writing repeated multiplication.
• The base is the number used as a repeated factor and the exponent indicates
the number of times you are going to multiply the base or is used as factor.
• The exponent is placed at the upper right side of the base.

What I Can Do

Complete the table below. Row one is done for you. Write your answers on your
answer sheet.

Exponential
Read as… Meaning Factored Form
Notation
8 to the third power 8 is used as a
83 8 cubed factor three times
8x8x8

1 59

2 64

3 412

4 125

5 71

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 Assessment

Read each item carefully. Then choose the letter of the correct answer. Write the
answers on your answer sheet.

1) A shorter way of writing repeated multiplication is by using ___________.

A. exponential notation C. exponent
B. base . factors

2) Which of the following statements is FALSE?

A. The exponent tells us how many times the base is used as a factor.
B. 7 is the base in 78.
C. In an exponential notation, the base is the number used as a factor.
D. 113 means that 3 is used as a factor 11 times.

3) In 1006, the number 6 is the ___________.

A. factor C. exponential notation
B. exponent D. base

4) In exponential notation, 9 x 9 x 9 x 9 x 9 x 9 x 9 is ___________.

A. 7 x 9 C. 97
B. 79 D. 9 x 7

5) The exponential notation 256 can be read as ___________.

A. “25 times 6th power” C. “25 multiplied by 6”
B. “25 to the power of 6” D. “6 times 25”

6) Which of the following exponential notation shows that 33 is used as a

factor 6 times?
A. 633 B. 633 C. 336 D. 336

7) 598 is read as ___________.

A. 59 to the power of 8 C. 8 to the power of 59
B. 5 to the 98th power D. 8 raised to the 59th power
8) In a “Pass the Bag” game, Cris picked a rolled paper with the exponential
notation 7007. Which is the correct repeated multiplication for it?
A. 700 x 7 C. 700 x 700 x 700 x 700 x 700 x 700 x 700
B. 7 x 700 D. 7 x 700 x 7 x 700 x 7 x 700 x 7 x 700 x 7

9) Which exponential notation is read as “119 raised to the power of 3”?

A. 1192 B. 1193 C. 1194 D. 1195

10) The given number is 2095. How will you write it into an exponential
notation showing that 209 will be used as a factor 5 times?
A. 2095 B. 2095 C. 2095 D. 2095

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 Additional Activities

Complete the table using the given description or situation. Write your answers
on your answer sheet.

Exponential
Description Base Exponent
Notation
1) The number 7 is raised to the power
of 11
2) 34 is used as a factor eight times.
3) Letter x is the base. It is used as a
factor 20 times.
4) You are Dino’s friend. Help him
identify the base and exponent in the
exponential notation 866.
5) Number 8 represents the number of
times letter n is used as a factor.
6) Mara holds a piece of paper with
“74 cubed” written on it.
7) The number whole number is 59. On
its upper right side a smaller number
4 is written.
8) The teacher instructed his pupils to
write the exponential notation which
means 45 is used as a factor 7 times.
9) Steve’s answer to the problem is 19.
He wants to raise it to the sixth
power.
10) Letter n represents the number of
times 25 is used as a factor.

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Additional Activities
Description or Exponential
Base Exponent Assessment
Situation Notation
1) 7 11 711 1) A
2) D
2) 34 8 348
3) B
3) x 20 x20
4) C
4) 86 6 866
5) B
5) n 8 n8
6) C
6) 74 3 743 7) A
7) 59 4 594 8) C
8) 45 7 457 9) B
9) 19 6 196 10) C
10) 25 n 25n
What’s More What I Know
Exponential
Base Exponent Factor Form 1) A
Form
27 2 7 2x2x2x2x2x2x2 2) B
3) D
45 4 5 4x4x4x4x4
4) C
63 6 3 6x6x6 5) A
134 13 4 13x13x13x13 6) C
7) D
93 9 3 9x9x9
8) B
What I Can Do
9) D
Exponential Can be read Meaning Factor Form
10)D
Form as…
5 to the third 5 is used as a
53 power or 5 factor three times 5x5x5 What’s In
cubed 1) 81
6 to the fourth 6 is used as a
64 6x6x6x6
power factor four times 2) 343
4 to the fifth 4 is used as a
45 4x4x4x4x4 3) 64
power factor five times
8 to the second 8 is used as a 4) 81
82 power or 8 factor 2 times 8x8
squared 5) 1 024
7 to the fourth 7 is used as a
74 7x7x7x7
power factor 4 times
Answer Key
 What I Know

A. Read each item carefully. Then choose the letter of the correct answer. Write the
answers on your answer sheet.

1) The exponential notation 53 if evaluated will be equal to _________.

A. 15 B. 25 C. 115 D. 125
2) In the easy category of a Math Quiz bee, the question read by the quiz
master was “Evaluate: 112”. Which will be the answer of the contestants in
order to get a point?
A. 112 B. 121 C. 211 D. 22

3) 84 means the number 8 will be used as a factor four times. What will be the
answer for this?
A. 4 094 B. 4 095 C. 4 096 D. 4 098

4) Miss Gracia is a Mathematics teacher. She often gives challenges to her

pupils. One morning, she placed a meta-strip with the expression 7 x 7 x 7 x
7 x 7 on the bulletin board with the note: “5 points will be given to pupils who
can evaluate this correctly”. Who among the following pupils got the point?
A. Carol who answered 35. C. Beth who answered 16 807.
B. Ram who answered 350. D. Cris who answered 16 708.

5) Which of the following exponential notations will give the value of 729 if
evaluated?
A. 9 x 9 x 9 C. 9 x 9 x 9 x 9
B. 9 x 9 x 9 x 9 x 9 D. 9 x 9

B. Analyze and solve. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

6) Three raised to 5 is _______.

7) Evaluate x3 if x = 9

8) If a = 10, what is the value of a3?

9) Five raised to 6 is ______.

10) If b = 4, what is the value of b6?

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 Lesson Giving the Value of a
2 Number Expressed in
Exponential Notation
In this lesson, the mastery of basic multiplication facts is necessary. You should not
multiply the base and its exponent but multiply the base by the number of times as
shown in the exponent.

What’s In

A. Complete the table. Write the answers on your answer sheet. The first one
is done for you.

Base Exponent Meaning

Example:
53 5 3 5x5x5
1) 25
2) 34
3) 82
4) 133
5) 205

B. Express each repeated multiplication in exponential notation. Write your

answers on your answer sheet.
Exponential Notation

6) 4x4x4x4x4 ______________
7) 6x6x6x6 ______________
8) 11 x 11 x 11 x 11 x 11 x 11 ______________
9) 250 x 250 x 250 ______________
10) 26 x 26 x 26 x 26 x 26 x 26 x 26 ______________

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 What’s New

Read and analyze the following problem.

Grace saved ₱3.00 on Day 1, ₱9.00 on Day 2, ₱27.00 on Day 3, ₱81.00 on

Day 4, and so on. If the pattern continues, how much will she save on the
7th day? How much will be her total savings?

What is It

We can construct a table to help us solve the problem.

What do you observe in the pattern?

From the table above, we can see that her savings on Day 2 is three times her
savings on Day 1 (₱3.00 x ₱3.00 = ₱9.00), her savings on Day 3 is thrice her
savings on Day 2 (₱3.00 x (₱3.00 x ₱3.00) = ₱27.00, and so on.
We can continue the pattern to find Grace’s savings on Days 5, 6, and 7.

Day Repeated Multiplication Exponential Notation Savings

1 ₱3.00 31 ₱3.00
2 3 x ₱3.00 32 ₱9.00
3 3 x 3 x ₱3.00 33 ₱27.00
4 3 x 3 x 3 x ₱3.00 34 ₱81.00
5 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x ₱3.00 35 ₱243.00
6 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x ₱3.00 36 ₱729.00
7 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x ₱3.00 37 ₱2 187.00
Total ₱3 729.00

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Notice that we can write the amount of savings per day as repeated multiplication,
which we can then write in exponential notation.

Answer: Grace will save ₱2 187.00 on Day 7.

Her total savings in seven days will be ₱3 729.00.

Here are more examples.

92 means 9 is used as a factor 2 times.

92 is 9 x 9 in expanded form.
The value of 92 is 81.

45 means 4 is used as a factor 5 times.

45 = 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 = 1 024.
The value of 45 is 1 024.

What’s More

Write each of the following in expanded form and find its value. Write your answers
on your answer sheet.

Exponential Notation Expanded Form Value

1) 27
2) 45
3) 63
4) 74
5) 93

What I Have Learned

To find the value of a number expressed in exponential notation, write the

number as repeated multiplication. Then multiply to find the product.

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 What I Can Do

Evaluate each expression. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

1) 34 = _______

2) 43 = _______

3) 82 = _______

4) 63 = _______

5) 72 = _______

6) 95 = _______

7) 104 = _______

8) 802 = _______

9) 125 = _______

10) 503 = _______

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 Assessment

A. Give the value of each number and write your answers on your answer sheet.

1) The first item of your formative test states: “Evaluate 27 = ______. Which will
be the correct answer?
A. 182 B. 14 C. 128 D. 281

2) The following exponential notation if evaluated will give a three-digit product

except one. Which one is it?
A. 112 B. 103 C. 83 D. 122

3) Which among the statements below is FALSE?

A. If n = 7, then n3 is equal to 343.
B. If p = 14, then p2 = 169
C. If y = 21, then y3 is 9 261.
D. If h = 30, then h raised to the power of 2 is 900.

4) Which of the following exponential notations is equal to 1 936?

A. 442 B. 332 C. 552 D. 222

5) If n = 16, what exponent will be placed in n to give a value of 4 096?

A. 4 B. 5 C. 2 D. 3

B. Analyze and solve. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

6) Eight raised to 5 is _______.

7) Evaluate x4 if x = 12

8) If a = 7, what is the value of a5?

9) Ten raised to 6 is ______.

10) If b = 8, what is the value of b5?

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 Additional Activities

A. Fill in the blank shape in each item. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
The first item with missing value is done for you.

Legend: Value

Factored form or expression

Exponential Notation

1) 153 3 375 15 x 15 x 15

2) 2 209 47 x 47

144 38 416
3)

2002 200 x 200

4)

5) 6x6x6x6x6 7 776

6) 56 5x5x5x5x5x5

B. Give what is being asked. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Think of an exponential notation to get the value of:
1) 64 = ________
2) 27 = ________
3) 121 = ________
4) 49 = ________
5) 256 = ________

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Exponents
Education for Elementary Schools, Self-Instructional Materials on
Bureau of Elementary Education, Department of Education, Distance •
Guide in Elementary Mathematics 6, Book Media Press, Inc., 319-323
Bureau of Elementary Education, Department of Education 2010, Lesson •
DepEd Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) for Mathematics 6 •
References
What I Know What I Can Do
A. 1) 81 6) 50 049
2) 64 7) 10 000
1) D 3) 64 8) 6 400
2) B 4) 216 9) 248 832
3) C 5) 49 10) 125 000
4) C
5) A
6) 243 Assessment
7) 729 A.
8) 1 000 1) C
9) 15 625 2) B
10) 4 096 3) B
4) A
What’s In 5) D
B.
A. Base Exponent Meaning 6) 32 768
7) 20 736
1) 25 2 5 2x2x2x2x2
8) 16 807
2) 34 3 4 3x3x3x3
9) 1 000 000
3) 82 8 2 8x8
10) 32 768
4) 133 13 3 13x13x13
5) 205 20 5 20x20x20x20x20
Additional Activities
B. A.
6) 45 1) 3 375
7) 64 2) 472
8) 116 3) 14 x 14 x 14 x 14
9) 2503 4) 40 000
10) 267 5) 65
6) 15 625
What’s More B.
Expanded Form Value 1) 26 , 43 , 82
1) 2x2x2x2x2x2x2 128
2) 4x4x4x4x4 1 024 2) 33
3) 6x6x6 216 3) 112
4) 7x7x7x7 2 401
10) 9x9x9 729 4) 72
5) 162
Answer Key
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