[Teacher voiceover]

Today what you’re going to see my class perform is order of operations, using the process of PEMDAS where they’ll be able to learn what process to do first, what’s the correct order, and what happens if they don’t follow the correct order.

Then there’s order of operations where you’re following parenthesis, then you go to exponents, then you do multiplication or division, whichever one comes first audition or subtraction, whichever one comes first, going left to right like you read a book.

[Teacher speaking to class]

We’re gonna start with order of operations. In order of operations, what we’re gonna do is you’re gonna tell me what my answer would be, and then you’re gonna tell me why that’s your answer.

First question, easy enough. Two plus two times two plus two. So two times two is four.

Okay, so what do I do now?

[Student 1 speaking]

Add.

[Teacher speaking to class]

Add. Which way do I add?

[Student 1 speaking]

Left to right.

[Teacher speaking to class]

Left to right. So what’s four plus two and 6 plus 2?

[Student 1 speaking]

8

[Teacher speaking to class]

Do we agree with eight?

[Students]

Yes.

[Teacher speaking to class]

Okay, so following the order of operations, what happens if you don’t follow the right order?

[Students]

You get the wrong answer.

[Teacher speaking to class]

You get the wrong answer, good. Let’s try a new one. What can we do? Vanessa?

[Vanessa]

38.

[Teacher speaking to class]

38. Rudy?

[Rudy]

38.

[Teacher speaking to class]

38? Okay, so what is 3 2/3 power?

[Student 2 speaker]

27.

[Teacher speaking to student 2]

How did you get 27?

{Student 2}

3 times 3 times 3.

[Teacher speaking to class]

Good. 3 times 3 times times 3 is 27. Okay, so 27 plus 1 is 28, 28 plus 9 is 37… what’s wrong Mateo? It’s not 1? Why? So how do I do it? How do I divide? 2 over 1, what is 2 over 1? 2. Okay, so this should be 2. So now what do I do George? Is 29… is 38 .