Anyone walking into our classroom during math lately might think we are practicing tongue twisters. Last week we began talking about how King Henry danced merrily drinking chocolate milk. Then we started discussing silly babies dancing and best soccer moms. Finally, yesterday we started asking to please excuse my dear Aunt Sally.
These fun phrases are mnemonic devices to help us remember the many steps in measurement conversions and (our newest unit) order of operations. So parents, if you were starting to think your fifth graders had lost their minds I am letting you know that they have not! And students, keep thinking about Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (PEMDAS) to remember the order of operations: parentheses, exponents, multiplication or division, addition or subtraction.
Or you can just re-watch this funny teacher rapping about it.
These fun phrases are mnemonic devices to help us remember the many steps in measurement conversions and (our newest unit) order of operations. So parents, if you were starting to think your fifth graders had lost their minds I am letting you know that they have not! And students, keep thinking about Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (PEMDAS) to remember the order of operations: parentheses, exponents, multiplication or division, addition or subtraction.
Or you can just re-watch this funny teacher rapping about it.