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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