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In The News

In The News. Purple Elephants May Destroy A School. Purple Elephants May Destroy A School. Everyone at St. Agnes School was in a panic as they read the headline saying that a herd of purple elephants were headed towards the school.

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In The News

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  1. In The News Purple Elephants May Destroy A School

  2. Purple Elephants May Destroy A School • Everyone at St. Agnes School was in a panic as they read the headline saying that a herd of purple elephants were headed towards the school. • Students sat in math class worrying about the headline and wondering if they would be safe while working order of operations problems.

  3. Purple Elephants May Destroy A School • Ms. McMahon, the Math teacher, became very discouraged as she checked their order of operations problems and had to give them back because the students did not follow the correct procedure in working the problems. • Ms. McMahon kept telling the class to remember the rules, but all they could think about was that the purple elephants may destroy a school, their school, St. Agnes.

  4. What could Ms. McMahon do?

  5. Purple Elephants May Destroy A School • All of a sudden Ms. McMahon had an idea. • She would teach the students that Purple Elephants May Destroy A School is a clue on how to solve Math problems.

  6. Ms. McMahon,Math Teacher, Agrees:Purple Elephants May Destroy A School

  7. Purple Elephants May Destroy A School • Ms. McMahon, the Math teacher, then informed her class that they could use the headline Purple Elephants May Destroy A School to remember how to solve their math problems. • Her class agreed that worrying was not going to stop the elephants if they decided to come to St. Agnes. The students then chose to turn what could be a major problem into something productive instead of worrying.

  8. Purple Elephants May Destroy A School • All of a sudden the principal, Ms. Bachkora, made an announcement. • She said that all Math students should quietly and quickly go to the gym because there were purple elephants in the school parking lot.

  9. Purple Elephants May Destroy A School • The students all quickly and quietly proceeded to the gym worrying about what would happen to their school if the Purple Elephants decided to destroy it. • All the students entered the gym and took a seat listening for the announcement on how to proceed if the elephants decided to destroy St. Agnes. • With great fanfare, the elephants headed into the gym. The students sat quietly and waited to see what would happen next.

  10. Purple Elephants May Destroy A School • The students imagined this:

  11. Purple Elephants May Destroy ASchool • Instead of destroying the school, the elephants amazed the students with their Math talents. Multiplication or Division Parenthesis Exponents Addition or Subtraction E AS P MD

  12. In The News Purple Elephants May Destroy A School

  13. Purple ElephantsHead To Middle School • The students quickly realized the headline meant the elephants were coming to share with them the secret of order of operations problems and not to destroy St. Agnes! Multiplication or Division Parenthesis Exponents Addition or Subtraction E AS P MD

  14. Parenthesis Purple Elephants May Destroy A School Exponents Multiplication Division Purple Elephants May Destroy A School Addition Subtraction

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