Order of Operations

Today, the fifth graders started learning about the Order of Operations.  While they were confused at first, they started to get it by the end of class.  

PEMDAS

"Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally"

Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction

*In that order!*

In an equation with multiple operations, the operations should be completed in the order above.  The tricky part is multiplication division and addition/subtraction.  These operations are to be done in the order they appear in the equation, from left to right.  This means that if division comes first as your read it, you divide before you multiply.  The same goes for addition.  (Parents - this is different from what many of us learned in school, including myself.)

Below are a few resources for this topic.
Videos/Examples:
BrainPOP (username: alexmid, password: brainpop - not my personal account)
Math Playground
Math Antics

Games/Practice:
PEMDAS Blaster (it gets a little stressful...I'm just warning you haha)
Leveled Practice
Choose the Correct Operations
FunBrain