1. Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally Wednesday, August 13th
Algebra 1
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
Wednesday, August 13th

2. Cooperative Group Procedures
Assigned seating --- students are assigned to a seating chart every 9 weeks.
Transitions --- each class will be timed and compared to other classes.
Cooperative groups (timed)
1-stand move sit
Working in groups leader, 2-materials manager, 3-reporter, 4-recorder
Getting out of cooperative groups (timed)

3. Cooperative Grouping 4 roles per group: 1 piece of post-it graph paper
Leader
Recorder
Reporter
Materials manager
1 piece of post-it graph paper
4 colors

4. Materials:
Materials manager has 1 minute to get all materials needed then return to the group.
One piece of post-it graph paper
4 colors/marker

5. 1st operation: Leader divides paper into 4 equal rectangles.
Each group member uses a different color & writes/draws a REAL WORLD example of an event that must be done in a specific order
example  taking a shower, baking a cake, etc…

6. 2nd operation:
The leader and reporter from each group will share/discuss the group’s posters
What is the importance of the order of events?

7. P E D M A S Order of Operations Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Step 4:
Use PEMDAS
“Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally”
Use the Left-to-Right rule when there is a tie.
= Always do the left operation first in event of a tie. P
Step 1:
arenthesis
(Brackets and Fraction Bar too) E
Step 2:
xponents M D
Left-to-Right Rule
Step 3:
ultiplication
ivision A S
Left-to-Right Rule
Step 4:
ddition
ubtraction

8. Group GOAL:
You must come up with at least one Acronym for the order of operations, PEMDAS.
example  People Eat McDonalds And Sonic

9. Bonus: 6 3 2 +8 2 ∙ 3 −2 2+4 2 +5 This problem can be done as seen.
Create 2 problems that cannot be done simply as written, but must truly be evaluated by using order of operations.
This problem can be done as seen.
∙ 3 −2
This problem requires PEMDAS.