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

I. What is the Order of Operations? Order of operation is a step to use to solve a

problem.

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. The steps to change a tire is first unlock the screw than take out the spare
tire than take out the jack, pull the car up, the out the tire , put the new tire,
put the car down, clean up and last drive out

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

Order of operation is the concept that use to solve problem.

 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.

The reason why we need order of operation is to not get the wrong answer as they did
in the comic strip, because if not you will the wrong answer most of the time.
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+26-2- 60÷2

52+26-2- 60÷2

52+24-60÷2

52+8-60÷2

25+8-60÷2

25+8-30

33-30

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