1. 1. What are you good at doing
1. What are you good at doing? (List at least 2 things not related to math.) 2. Name one person you look up to. Please share why. 3. Are you good at math? Why or why not? 4. What do you enjoy outside of school? 5. What was the best thing that happed this summer?

2. Just the facts: Order of Operations and Properties of real numbers
A GEMS/ALEX Submission Submitted by: Elizabeth Thompson, PhD Summer, 2008 Adapted by Jeanette Stein algebra1teachers.com

3. Important things to remember
Grouping Symbols – anything grouped… including information above or below a fraction bar and parenthesis.
Exponents – anything in the same family as a ‘power’… this includes radicals (square roots).
Multiplication- this includes distributive property (discussed in detail later).

4. Some items are grouped!!!
Multiplication and Division are GROUPED from left to right (like reading a book- do whichever comes first Addition and Subtraction are also grouped from left to right, do whichever comes first in the problem.

5. So really it looks like this…..
Parentheses / Grouping Symbols
Exponents
Multiplication and Division (left to right)
Addition and Subtraction (left to right)

6. Example #1

7. Example #2

8. Order of Operations-BASICS
Think: PEMDAS Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally Parenthesis Exponents Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction

9. Homework Assignment #1
Remember PEMDAS and “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally”?
Make up your own acronym for PEMDAS and create a poster or Illustrate your acronym. Feel free to also illustrate this using technology and ing it to me.
Make sure it is school appropriate.