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TEKS Math Standard: 6.7.A

generate equivalent numerical expressions using order of operations, including whole number exponents and prime factorization

Factors and Codes: First Names (Episode 2)
Factors and Codes: First Names (Episode 2)
Scrambled up somewhere in 161,000 is a first name. Can you find it!?
Factors and Codes (Episode 1)
Factors and Codes (Episode 1)
Let’s use factors to encode and decode words.
Math Curiosity: Klauber’s Triangle
Math Curiosity: Klauber’s Triangle
In 1932, a leading authority on rattlesnakes, Laurence Klauber, discovered a startling pattern within a triangle of primes.
Create Your Own Operation
Create Your Own Operation
The commutative and associative properties are a whole lot more interesting when you apply them to a mathematical operation that you created!
Parentheses: How big of a change can they make!?
Parentheses: How big of a change can they make!?
Once students understand the order of operations, they often just get stuck doing increasingly difficult practice problems. That’s a sure-fire way to squelch learning, though. Here, students determine where to place parentheses to make the greatest change in an expression.
How Many Ways: Times Equals Times
How Many Ways: Times Equals Times
How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?
How Many Ways: Order of Operations 1
How Many Ways: Order of Operations 1
How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?
Exponents – How Low Can They Go?
Exponents – How Low Can They Go?
Using exponent patterns, can students predict what the 0th power will be?
Why Is Our Calendar So Weird!?
Why Is Our Calendar So Weird!?
Why are there 12 months? Why don’t weeks fit into months evenly? Why don’t weeks fit into the year evenly? What’s going on with the calendar!
Doubling Dollars
Doubling Dollars
Say you have a dollar. Say you can double that dollar each day: $1, $2, $4, and so on. How long will it take to reach… one million dollars? Not as long as you might think!