Visualizing Orders of Operations
I believe there are certain things that we as teachers should require our students to memorize. In math, students simply must know the correct order of operations or they will be frustrated and discouraged when they get the wrong answers to fundamental math problems over and over again, often not knowing why. But at the same time we need to give examples of where and why order of operations matter. This activity builds upon a well known mnemonic, PEMDAS, (“Plea