Logarithms

Activities

Indices True False
Activity
Arrange the given statements involving indices to show whether they are true or false.

Logarithms
Activity
Self-marking exercises on evaluating logarithms and using them to solve equations.

Videos

Logarithms Introduction
Activity
A basic introduction to the concept of logarithms from the Khan Academy

Log Tables
Activity
Logarithms and log tables - what Transum used before calculators! A Numberphile video.

Starters

Starter
Exponential Error
This lesson starter presents a number of statements about indices and pupils are asked if they can spot the mistake.

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Teachers might find the complete Logarithms Topic List useful.

Older teachers will remember their school days, before calculators were widely available, using logarithms to perform difficult multiplication and division calculations. Nowadays logarithms, or logs as they are more commonly known, are studied as part of an A Level and International Baccalaureate course and are seen as being useful for solving certain exponential equations. Basically a logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation.


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