Math with Merritt

Want to help students truly understand the order of operations? If you are looking to scaffold your approach to teaching this topic this lesson is what you want to use. Students start out with simple two step expressions and work their way up to expressions with more than two steps. This lesson introduces students to the Order of Operations and includes "Step Viewer" templates, Order of Operations Checklists and worksheet practice with keys. This also includes two videos. One video shows how t

This video is an brief introductory to the UBD Unit entitled Order of Operations. This helps students begin to ponder why there might be a need for a set of rules when evaluating numerical expressions.

Are you looking for a way to introduce the DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY and give your students a very concrete conceptual understanding about what the property means? Would you also like a lesson that has a clear UBD lesson plan already written out for you, a video that explicitly walks you through how to use manipulatives to model the property, a flipchart and PDF version of the lesson and a low tech option where students can cut out the templates for the models used on the flipchart? If this sounds l

This is a brief video (no sound) that models how to utilize the Order of Operations Lesson "Step Viewer" and "Order of Operations Checklist" from the UBD Lesson on Order of Operations.

This is a Google Slides Version of the "Intro to Complex Numbers" Pages file and is compatible with your Google Classroom.

This is a free product that I would like people to sample. If it is something that other teachers feel useful I will be uploading more lessons that are similar to this one. If you choose to download this free product, please leave me feedback so I know if it is something useful. Thank you for you help!