Bingo Order Of Operations

To introduce the concept of order of operations to the students I would first write PEMDAS on the board which stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition and Subtraction. I would put brackets around M and D, and A and S, to show that they are grouped together in the order of operations. “One misconception by students is that all multiplication should happen before all division because the multiplication comes before division in the acronym. In fact, multiplication and division have the same precedence and should be evaluated as they appear from left to right.”(NCTM) I would explain to them that we are going to go over a few expressions using the order of operations then we are going to play a game of bingo using the order of operations. …show more content…
I will need to come up with 50 different expressions that equal the numbers one to fifty on individual slips of paper put them into a container. The numbers 1-10 will correspond to B on the bingo board, 11-20 correspond to I, and so forth to 50 and O. The students will have to solve these expressions to get the number on the Bingo sheet. The object of the game, like in regular bingo, is to get five numbers in a row vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. To begin the activity, I will distribute out the blank bingo sheets and ask the students to fill them in without repeating the same number twice. I will give them the choice to write in one free space wherever they want. Like above, B corresponds to the numbers 1-10, I to 11-20 and so forth. This allows for better distribution of the numbers on the