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2. Notes to self:
This PPT is slightly different from the one listed in my CL Unit 1 file because it has been wiped of any material bought from others—all of this is my own work and can be published under my name.
Also, there are some good PPTs on Order Ops with integers in the original file.

3. Order of Operations No exponents in these problems Parentheses
3(4 + 1)+ 2
4 + 3(10 - 8)
12 ÷ × 3
Exponents
3( ) + 2 5
4 + 3( ) 2 6 + 3
Multiply
or Divide 9
(left to right) 17 10
Add
or Subtract
(left to right)
No exponents in these problems
3 + 2(3 + 5)
(5 + 4 ) – 3 × 3
7(2 + 4)+ 9 9
– 3 × 3
7( ) + 9
3 + 2( ) 6 8
9 – 9 51 19 KH

4. ½ ( + 6) + 3 × 6 ½ ( ) + 3 × 6 ½(10) + 3 × 6 Challenge Questions: 1).
2).
3).
÷ 2 × 3
1 + 5 × 3 – 4 ÷ 2
6(1 + 5) - 5 – 15 2
6( ) - 5
× 3 6 3
16 – 2 31 19 14
Challenge Questions:
4).
5).
½ ( ) + 3 × 6
3( ) - 4 ÷ 4
6×2
8 ÷ 2
½ ( ) + 3 × 6
3( ) - 4 ÷ 4
- 3 12
+ 6 4
½(10) × 6
3(9) ÷ 4 26 23 KH

5. ¼ ( + 2)+ 5×2 ¼ ( )+ 5×2 ¼(8) + 5×2 Challenge Questions: 6). 7). 8).
10 – 3 × 2 – 1
3 + 3 × 4 × 2
6(3 + 5)+ 5
6( ) + 5
10 – ( ) – 1 8 6
× 2 12
3 + 24 4
– 1 53 3 27
Challenge Questions:
9).
10).
¼ ( )+ 5×2
4( )+ 2×1
2×1
2×3
¼ ( )+ 5×2
4( )+ 2×1
+ 6 2
+ 2 6
¼(8) + 5×2
4(8) + 2×1 34 12 KH

6. Teaching notes
These are NOT lecture notes. Students should try the questions on their own, before you show the answers.
While they are practicing, you want to be walking around praising and coaching them.
Before getting to class, be sure to print out the answers and have them handy. Otherwise you’ll be stuck solving the questions for yourself while they work, rather than walking around praising and coaching students.
Using a remote mouse clicker, you can slowly display the answers. Time it so each answer appears soon after most students have finished that question.

7. Teaching Notes
The purpose of these slides is to keep you, the teacher, mobile. Instead of being stuck in the front at the blackboard/projector, you can walk around.
This works best if it takes less than 5 s. for you to look at each student’s work, praise or coach, and move on, “working the crowd” as Fred Jones would say.
The student blackline is designed to make all students solve each question in the same part of their page, so you can see at a glance whether it’s right. That lets you work the crowd more efficiently and praise or coach many more students.