Exponents Worksheets for Grade 5 Students

In our grade 5 math section, we introduce exponents to students. These worksheets help students practice reading and writing exponents, including the special case of powers of ten.

What is an exponent?

An exponent refers to the number of times a number is multiplied by itself. For example, “2 to the power of 3”, written like 2³ means:

2 x 2 x 2 = 8

Our grade 5 exponents worksheets introduce the use of exponents. 

Introducing exponents worksheets

Students learn about exponents as repeated multiplication of a base number in these worksheets.

Practice reading exponents

Once they’ve covered the introductory worksheets, students move onto working with exponents.

Students write exponents

These worksheets ask students to rewrite expressions as exponents.

Powers of ten worksheets

Finally, we have a set of worksheets where students review reading and writing powers of ten.