Tasks | Early Adolescence | Rule of Order

Tasks - Year 8

Rule of Order   by Alan Sadler, Rossmoyne SHS

Phase of Development:   Early Adolescence

Learning Area/s:	Mathematics
Strand/s	Substrand/s
Number	Understand Operations Calculate
Brief Description:	Quick Introductory Activity to stimulate students with Rule of Order.
Expected Outcomes:	Understands the meaning, use and connections between the four operations on whole and decimal numbers, and uses this understanding to choose appropriate operations (whole multipliers and divisors) and constructs and completes equivalent statements. Calculates the whole numbers, money and measures (at least multipliers and divisors to 10), drawing mostly on mental strategies to add and subtract two-digit numbers and for multiplications and divisions related to basis facts. To understand the need for a role of order.
Context:	Quick and easy use of technologies with lower school students.
Learning Activities/ Experience:	Initial activity: Use your calculators to determine   3 + 5 x 11 What is your answer? Generate class discussion about the different results obtained and the order in which calculators perform operations.
Resources:	Need to ensure that somewhere in the room there are both 'scientific' calculators and basic calculators so that both 88 and 58 are obtained as answers. Teacher may need to bring a few of each type into the classroom.