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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graph Order of Operations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The activities in this flipchart involve opportunities for working with graphing and order of operations.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Calendar Fun Operations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to help students evaluate numerical expressions by using order of operations. The students will be provided a calendar for the current month of the year. Students will then be provided with a worksheet that...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Roll the Dice

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use the order of operations and number properties to create a unique expression from a set of numbers that must equal another number.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: Positive and Negative [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Order of operations with positive and negative numbers is the focus of this graphing calculator lesson. Included are detailed examples, demonstrations of key functions, and practice problems. Acrobat Reader required.
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Lost and Found Activity Plan

For Students 1st - 3rd
Gorillas, groceries, pirate treasure, and aardvark homes: these are just a few of the things children will search for and find in this week's Afterschool Adventure, Lost and Found. Children will use position words like above, below, and...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Number Sense

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Order of operations goes beyond the traditional basic four operations to include positive and negative exponents and parenthesizes.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Remember Me?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use the calculator to compute the value of expressions involving order of operations.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Number Crunching! Number Munching!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students comprehend the order of operations and apply this understanding to simplify and evaluate expressions. They also learn to represent problems that involve variable quantities with expressions and use the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: What's Your Address?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use the number 4 and the order of operations to find combinations that will result in numbers 1 to 10.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Evaluating Simple Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set of questions involves placement of parentheses, evaluating and simplifying expressions, and order of operations. The problems are multiple choice and true/false; solutions are included.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Linear Equations and Y Intercepts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These questions measure knowledge and skills: order of operations; solving equations in one variable; graphing linear equations; writing linear expressions and equations; finding the y-intercept of a linear function.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Number and Operation Sense: Rational Numbers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students learn to use the calculator to collect a set of data in order to identify patterns that illustrate important rational number concepts: the relationship between rational numbers and division, and equivalent fraction and decimal...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Arrow an Activiaty for Plotting Points

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are given points to plot in activity center. The points will form an arrow. The teacher can then direct students to change the coordinates to translate the picture. Students practice plotting points, integer operations, and see...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: My Favorite Number

For Teachers 4th - 7th
The activity allows students to review many of the number theory concepts. Students will pick a composite number write verbal expressions about the number, find the factors, prime factorization, list multiples, draw a cartoon character...
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Other

Mathpower: Math Fundamental Assignments

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Math variety of concepts, this colorful website is sure to give your students the chance show what they know. Concepts covered include rounding, division with decimals, order of operations, ratio, percent, multiplication, and division of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Smile Mathematics App

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This App contains five games that reinforce skills from the number and operations, geometry, and measurement standards. These games help students build skills in ordering numbers, choosing equivalent fractions, estimating and drawing...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Imaginary Numbers? What Do You Mean Imaginary?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Is it any wonder that students are suspicious? We lead, sometimes drag, them through Algebra I insisting they must follow the order of operations. We make them learn the "hard way" of doing an assignment one day only to show them the...
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Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa

Red Escolar: Arithmetica Obligada

For Students 3rd - 8th
In Spanish. In this activity you will learn how to use parentheses in arithmetic operations. Also practice arithmetic playing with three dice.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Practice: Translate Expressions With Parentheses

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Activity provides questions that test understanding of how to translate expressions with parentheses. Immediate feedback is given and hints or a video are available if needed.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Medal Muddle

For Students 5th - 8th
Can you work out which order these thirteen nations finished in after competing? This activity presents an exercise in strategic thinking, accessible to lower secondary students (but hinting at the more advanced mathematics of sorting...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Math Centers Sorting

For Teachers K Standards
In order to pull small groups during math instruction, the rest of the students need engaging activities that they can complete independently. These simple sorting activities help students learn the procedures for completing math centers.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Measuring Cups

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This task could form part of a classroom activity where students are encouraged to find as many different ways as possible to make different fractions such as 1/12 and then share their methods. While measuring cups would be helpful to...
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Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Grouping and Grazing

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Help the alien spaceship move cows into corrals by counting, adding, and subtracting. This activity helps children learn grouping, tally marks, and place value.
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Lawrence Hall of Science

The Math Page: Skill in Arithmetic: The Meaning of Decimals

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This website from The Math Page explains and defines decimals.