The What's, Why's, and When's of Order of Operations

I. What is the Order of Operations?

Imagine driving your vehicle to go to work or school. Suddenly, you start hearing
a loud constant noise from the back side of
your vehicle. You park your car to the side of
the road to check what is happening and you
find out your vehicle has a flat tire. You must
get to work or school as soon as possible, so
there is no choice to wait for help. You decide
to change the flat tire. List the steps you must
take to change the flat tire of your vehicle.
Remember about safety!

List steps to change a flat tire:

a. Park the car

b. Get the spare tire
c. Place a rock behind and front of the tire
d. Loosen lug nuts
e. Jack the car
f. Remove lug nuts all the way
g. Remove flat tire
h. Lift new tire in place
i. Replace lug nuts
j. Slowly lower the jack and remove it
k. Clean up after yourself

This example illustrates the concept of order of operations. Explain in your own
words what the order of operations is.

The order of operations is a way of doing math the right way, so everyone can
get the same and right answer.
II. Why we need the Order of Operations?

Read the following comic strip:

Based on the comic strip, explain why we need the order of operations.

We need order of operations when we have a math problem that have adding
multiplying and division, we have to know how to solve that problem the right .

order of operations set off the guide line for us to follow.

 III. When do we use Order of Operations?

Write an expression that simplifies to 3. Your expression must

contain exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, and at least one
set of parenthesis. Explain the process you would use to simplify the expression.
Use Equation Editor to write and simplify the expression.

52+8÷412-8-30
52+8÷44-30

25+8÷44-30

25+24-30

25+8-30

33-30

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