What was my aha moment this week?

When we did the skills check on the exponent unit I was first struggling when I had to simplify the terms. The exponent laws themselves were not the problem, but using them in the questions was hard for me. When I did the skills check and got it explained I realized what I have to look for when I am dealing with exponents: I always have to remember that every number has the exponent one, so if there is the power law I have to multiply the exponent with the one, so even the numbers that have one as their exponent might get 2,3,4 or any other number as their exponent. Since I realized that I had no problem doing those questions anymore.