Understanding Negative Exponents: Exploring Patterns and Making Connections

This video explains how to apply negative exponents by exploring patterns and connecting them to existing rules. The students learn that negative exponents can be undone by dividing or multiplying by the reciprocal. They also discover that any base raised to a negative exponent is equal to 1 divided by that base raised to the opposite or positive exponent. The teacher emphasizes that negative exponents do not necessarily result in negative numbers unless the base is negative.