While both strategies had their strengths and weaknesses, I believe they were both beneficial to students for many reasons.
- The first strategy, problem-based learning, required students to think critically and make connections which aided in their conceptual understanding of exponents. This strategy lacked the amount of examples and diversity of examples students needed.
- The second strategy expand, cancel, and combine allowed students to see many more examples and allowed students to get a lot more practice working with exponents. This strategy, however, lacked the conceptual piece of exponents and focused primarily on procedures.
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