Week of August 7

This week we began exploring Order of Operations.  Students are learning that there is an ORDER to solving multiple step equations.

Students played a game to help them understand order of operations better.  They rolled 4 dice and then had to try to make an equation equal a target answer.  We started with the answer of 12.  Here is an image of some work we did on the board.

Our class target was 12.  We rolled a 4, 5, 8, 9.  Students gave suggestions on how to combine these numbers with various operations to reach the target of 12.  As you can see from examples, we did not meet the target with these numbers.

Students were able to meet the target in their groups.  We had many creative uses of parenthesis!  Students can play this game at home to help strengthen their math skills.  Any target can be created and students can make up numbers if they do not have dice at home.

We continued practicing solving equations using PEMDAS.

Here are some practice problems we worked on in class and their solutions.

Please practice these with your child.  Here are the answers to the additional problems.  E-mail me if you need additional support.

1. 77
2. 39
3. 50
4. 46
5. 49
6. 67
7. 29
8. 9
9. 15
10. 22