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. First I would get my spare tire in the back trunk of my vehicle.

b. Second gather my tools
c. Third raise the car at a height where the flat tire doesn’t touch the ground
d. Fourth loosen up the volts
e. Fifth pull out the flat tire
f. Replace it with the new one
g. Adjust the volts back in its place tightly
h. Last assemble both flat tire and tools together in the trunk
i. Finally head to school

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

In my own words order of operations is a technique used to help individuals

gather information or to solve a problem in a process from the beginning to the
end, instead of just running off to an answer, you’ll better understand your
problem that’s being solved and notice for any mistakes made, so that you can
go back to step one and come up with a more justifiable reasoning, it is not only
used in math class but can be uses in everyday life.
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.

Based on the comic strip we need order of operations in order for every last one
of us individuals to come up with the same accurate answer, instead of having
different answers for the same equation. We also need order of operations so
that we can better understand the math steps, PEMDAS.
 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.

Reference:

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