Friday, September 5, 2008

ATFO and OOO!

We nailed down our subtracting integers today (we'll still need more practice, but we're getting there!) with our warm up and checking our homework.  Then we moved back a couple pages in our notebooks to hit OOO... the Order of Operations!  Whoohoo!  A few practice problems later and we assigned our homework.

Remember PEMDAS (Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract) and the mnemonic Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally?  Their HW is to come up with their own!  And, preferably, it be quite funny. :)

I gave the example of Purple Elephants Must Drastically Attack Squirrels.... or something like that.  Ha!