Sunday, November 7, 2010

Order of Operations


The Order of Operations is

B- Brackets
E- Exponents
D- Division
M- Multiplication
A- Addition
S- Subtraction

This is a video explaining BEDMAS.

1. Annie has been asked to calculate 1.7+6÷2 She claims the answer is 3.85 Do you agree? Explain why or why not.
She is wrong because she didn't follow the Order of Operations and the correct answer is 4.7. I got my answer by doing this:
1.7+6÷2=
1.7+3=
4.7

2. Put brackets in the following expression to get the largest value possible. What problem solving strategy did you use? 3x2.8+6.4÷4=
There are 3 possible answers. (3 x 2.8) + 6.4 ÷ 4 = 10, 3 x 2.8 + (6.4 ÷ 4) = 10. and (3 x 2.8) + (6.4 ÷ 4) = 10.


3. Create a problem that could be solved using the following expression. 2.5 + 1.25 + 5 x 1.6.
Eric wants to buy a keyboard the cost 11.75 but he only has 1.60 dollars
he went home and ask his mom for 5 dollors
but he still missing 3.75
so he went to his uncles house to ask for money and his uncle gave him 2.50
he still missing 1.25 so he went to his sister for 1.25
This is an example we did at class:
Here is an Order of Operations game .

Thank you for reading. [:


11 comments:

Charisse817 said...

Good Job Suzzene! i like the video, it helped :).

Joy873 said...

Nice Job Suzenne!
Great explaining everything and awesome video .

Jennifer Lopez said...

Good job Suzzene. I really liked the video!!

paige817 said...

Good Job Suzenne!
You did a good job explaining what you were talking about and you could also put more colour to make it more interesting. Otherwise, you did a great a job!

Mikaela W said...

Good job Suzzene I really liked the video.

jm816 said...

Good Work,
The Video is easy to understand.

paulo873 said...

good job Suzanne good explanation keep it up and i like the video alot

Paolob said...

Well done Suzzene with the explaing

kim873 said...

good job suzzene ! i liked your explaining (:

jayjay817 said...

Very good for a scribepost

Hannah said...

hey thanks suzzene this will help alot