Ep 191: PEMDAS Is Figureoutable

Thinking and reasoning is always more powerful than rotely memorizing steps. In this episode Pam and Kim demonstrate how to help students reason about Order of Operations.Talking Points:Nat Banting's "Oops, I Meant"Representing a context using the grouping symbols to communicate Demonstrate how mathematicians communicate with symbols earlUsing the equals sign correctly to mean "equal" vs "Do it"" No more unnecessarily difficult practiceCheck out our social mediaTwitter: @PWHarrisInstagram: Pam Harris_mathFacebook: Pam Harris, author, mathematics educationLinkedin: Pam Harris Consulting LLC