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. Open The trunk to get your tools.

b. Get out the flat tire
c. Jack up the car
d. Remove the bolt from the tire
e. Take out the tire
f. Apply some sort of rock underneath where the tire use to be for it wont be
off balance
g. Put back the bolts in the car
h. Remove the old tire

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

We need order of operations when cases when we neeed to solve problems for
more then one equations.For instance when there is big problem you need to
solve it by doing a lot of steps. Also you have to follow a series of steps.
 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.

425+3÷2-61

16×8÷2-61

128÷2-61

64-61

=3

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