Coach: look at the exit check results and the paper practice. Go back over every item a student missed: read it together, have the student explain their thinking, then show the correct thinking. Use the reteach routine below for anyone who missed two or more. Students who got everything right take the stretch task.

🔄 Reteach it (missed two or more)

Expand before using a shortcut. Write x³ · x² as (x·x·x)(x·x) and count the x's. Then name the rule. Do this for each rule once before practicing without expanding.

Use a rule card: multiply = add exponents, divide = subtract, power of a power = multiply.

Expand x² · x³. Count.
Answer: x⁵.
Expand (x²)².
Answer: x⁴.
x⁴ ÷ x: cancel one x.
Answer: x³.

🚀 Stretch it (got everything right)

Show why x⁰ = 1 using the division rule.
Answer: x⁵ ÷ x⁵ = x⁵⁻⁵ = x⁰, and anything divided by itself is 1.
Simplify (2x³y)² ÷ (4xy).
Answer: 4x⁶y² ÷ 4xy = x⁵y.