Volume 2, Edition 7 – Going Beyond PEMDAS

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for teaching students order of operations.

The vast majority of teachers use the PEMDAS rule to teach order of operations to their students. In an article for Teaching Children Mathematics, a professor of mathematics education discusses ways to go beyond PEMDAS to help students truly master the concept.

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