Activity Description A game like Fraction Four but instead of fraction questions the player must answer order of operations questions (addition / subtraction, multiplication / division, exponents, and parentheses) to earn a piece to place on the board. Parameters: time limit, difficulty level, types of questions. Order of Operations Four is one of the Interactivate assessment games.

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Order of Operations Four

Place in mathematics curriculum:

This activity can be used to:

• Give students practice with basic math skills.
• Develop students mental math skills.

This activity allows two users to play a game of order of operations where each player tries to connect four game pieces in a row before his or her opponent does. The players can choose to answer problems which use addition / subtraction, multiplication / division, exponents, and parentheses. They can also choose the difficulty level. This activity would work well in groups of 2 for about 15-20 minutes.

Preparations for this activity:

• Explain how to apply the order of operations.
• Encourage students to try more difficult problems and decrease the allowed time.
• Prevent any disputes and taunting between winners and losers.
• Explain why an exponent takes higher precedence than a negation.
• Explain why negation is considered to be an operator.