High School · Building Functions

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSF.BF.B.5

(+) Understand the inverse relationship between exponents and logarithms and use this relationship to solve problems involving logarithms and exponents.

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Lessons that teach this standard

• Logarithms: Solving for an Exponent

  What a logarithm is, why it is the inverse of an exponential, how to use logs to solve for an unknown exponent, and how to evaluate any logarithm with a calculator.

• Properties of Logarithms: Product, Quotient and Power Rules

  The three logarithm rules for products, quotients and powers, why they follow from the exponent rules, expanding and condensing logs, and change of base.