Try this puzzle to challenge kids to solve tricky order of operations equations. Order of operations is like a game that we need to play in the correct order, or else we won't finish properly. It's like first putting on socks before shoes. In math, we follow these steps - first, we do what's inside parentheses or brackets, then exponents or square roots, multiplication and division (from left to right), and finally, addition and subtraction (from left to right). This is often remembered by the acronym PEMDAS.