Thursday, September 17, 2009

Using Calculators with Order of Operation Problems

Although students will not be allowed to use calculators on their tests, I thought it would be a good idea to show students how they can use their calculator buttons to help them double check their order of operation problems. Scientific calculators are programmed to compute using the rules of orders of operations. However, there are some tricks to getting these to work, and the calculator operator must know how to tell the calculator about grouping symbols. We practiced inserting parentheses and grouping symbols on our calculators.

Tonight's Homework: Lesson 1.2 ( 24 - 43 )

Justin, you will need to do this assignment, as well as all of the problems on page 14.

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