few_shots: 
Example:
Problem/activity:
You’re mixing ingredients for cookies. The recipe says to combine 6 tablespoons, or ¾ stick, of butter with 1 cup of sugar. You accidentally mix in a whole stick of butter (8 tablespoons) with the cup of sugar. How can you fix this?


Concept/skill: 
Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.

Answer: 
No. Usually problems that teach recognizing and representing proportional relationships between quantities involve deciding whether two quantities are in a proportional relationship or identifying the constant of proportionality, and then representing proportional relationships by equations or explaining proportional relationship using coordinate graphs.

Now, does the problem or activity shown below enable students to learn the full intent of the following concept or skill?

shot_info: fl_problem_000972_neg_0

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standard_description: Interpret the equation y = mx + b as defining a linear function, whose graph is a straight line; give examples of functions that are not linear. For example, the function A = s2 giving the area of a square as a function of its side length is not linear because its graph contains the points (1,1), (2,4) and (3,9), which are not on a straight line.
problem_activity: Activity
The purpose of this activity is to extend the definition of exponents to include negative exponents. The meaning of zero exponents is also revisited. When students use tables to explore expressions with negative exponents, they are noticing and making use of structure (MP7).
Launch
Arrange students in groups of 2. Tell students to work on their own and then share their reasoning with their partner after each has had a chance to complete the problem. Follow with a whole-class discussion.
Student Facing
Complete the table.
|                               | exponential form |   number form    |               calculations               |
|-------------------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------------------------------|
|                               |     \(2^5\)      |                  |                                          |
|                               |                  |        16        |                                          |
| \(\frac{2^4}{2}=2^{4-1}=2^3\) |     \(2^3\)      |                  |                                          |
| \(\frac{2^3}{2}=2^{3-1}=2^2\) |     \(2^2\)      |        4         |                                          |
|                               |                  |        2         |        \(4 \boldcdot \frac12=2\)         |
|                               |                  |        1         |        \(2  \boldcdot \frac12=1\)        |
|                               | \(2^{\text-1}\)  | \(\frac{1}{2}\)  |                                          |
|                               |                  | \(\frac{1}{4}\)  | \(\frac12  \boldcdot \frac12 = \frac14\) |
|                               | \(2^{\text-3}\)  |                  |                                          |
|                               | \(2^{\text-4}\)  |                  |                                          |
|                               |                  | \(\frac{1}{32}\) |                                          |
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
Display the completed table, and resolve any questions students have. Questions for discussion:
“How would you make sense of
\(2^{\text-6}\)
?” (I know
\(2^{\text-5}=\frac{1}{32}\)
, and I know that
\(2^{\text-6}\)
would be the result of multiplying by another
\(\frac12\)
. So,
\(2^{\text-6} = \frac{1}{64}\)
.
“How could we figure out the value of
\(7^{\text-2}\)
?” (Possible response: We could rewrite it as
\(\frac{7^0}{7^2}\)
, and then
\(\frac{1}{49}\)
.


aligns: no