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How can I teach 7th graders about order of operations through a unit on the topic?

Genius Hour Project
Image taken by Mariam Atlagh, my sister.

The outcome of my 20% time, were a student math book on order of operations, a teacher guide, a set of worksheets that came with answer keys, and a unit assessment. I demonstrated my learning by building these products around a new standard that I had not learned previously. To build my final products, I first had to figure out if there were any changes to the learning standard. There had indeed been a change in the standards. When I was first taught order of operations, the standard was around the acronym PEMDAS, which stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, and Subtraction. Now, the new standard is based around the acronym GEMA, which stands for Grouping, Exponents, Multiplication, and Addition. It is basically a more simplified way of PEMDAS, only more functions are being used. These new ones are Brackets, and Absolute Value, which go along with Parentheses as the G in GEMA. After I found out what the new standard was and did some research on it, I had to use this research to build my final product. I had all the success I could have ever wanted with my final product, which was answering my driving question, how can I teach 7th graders about order of operations through a unit on the topic? The only obstacle I faced was time, and the worry of finishing on time. I overcame this by working outside of school a lot, for about a total of 5 to 8 hours.   

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