PEMDAS

Students created projects to help them memorize the order of operations.  Students chose between creating a mnemonic device, writing a song, or writing a story for PEMDAS.  Wow!  We have some creative students. Check out some of our work below. 

Sally, Soyoun, and Olda's Mnemonic Device 

Sally, Soyoun, and Olda's poster

Sarah C. and Luana's Song 
(to the tune of "What Does the Fox Say?") 

What does PEMDAS mean? 
It goes pa pa parentheses pa pa pa parentheses 

What does PEMDAS mean? 
It goes ex ex ex exponents ex ex ex exponents 

What does PEMDAS mean? 
It goes mu mu mu multiplication mu mu mu multiplication 

What does PEMDAS mean? 
It goes di di di division di di division di di di division di di division

What does PEMDAS mean? 
It goes add add add addition add add add addition 

What does PEMDAS mean? 
It goes sub sub sub subtraction sub sub sub subtraction 

What does PEMDAS mean?

Enzo and João's PEMDAS Story 
A long time ago in the dinosaur age a school named School-Rexducation. In the fifth grade room there were five friends, and one bully, Subtraction. The bully always wanted to be the first and all he did was wrong. The five friends were tired of obeying what Subtraction said. 

One day Parentheses and his friends tried to talk to Subtraction in a nice way, but he didn't listen. So one day when Subtraction was playing he fell from a cliff. Parentheses and his friends were there to save Subtraction. 

The next day after the fall Subtraction was very grateful and stopped bullying them. He became their friends, and they created a group called "PEMDAS". The leader was Parentheses, then Exponents, next was multiplication.  Right after multiplication was division, followed by addition and finally subtraction.