Episode Details

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 earl
• Using the equals sign correctly to mean "equal" vs "Do it"" 
• No more unnecessarily difficult practice

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