Applying the Order of Operations Correctly (Teach This Topic)

This guide helps you teach the finished lesson about interpreting and evaluating expressions with several operations. Begin with the need for a shared convention, then develop understanding of priority, grouping, equal-priority operations and algebraic notation. Use the suggested questions and written tasks to check structure as well as answers. Adapt the later work according to the learner’s confidence with powers, roots, fractions, negative numbers and substitution.