Thinking and reasoning is always more powerful than rotely memorizing steps. In this episode Pam and Kim demonstrate how to help students reason about Order of Operations.
Talking Points:

• Nat Banting's "Oops, I Meant"
• Representing a context using the grouping symbols to communicate 
• Demonstrate how mathematicians communicate with symbols earl
• Using the equals sign correctly to mean "equal" vs "Do it"" 
• No more unnecessarily difficult practice

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