Order of operations practice
Evaluate ten expressions with all four arithmetic operations. Select easy or hard practice and five grouping/exponent formats, then print the questions and a separate worked key.
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Evaluate each expression. Work inside groups first and evaluate powers before multiplication or division. Preserve left-to-right order at each tied level.
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Choose easy or hard practice, then select the grouping and exponent form. Advanced and algebraic worksheets also let you choose positive, negative or mixed inputs. These settings describe the operands; a positive-input expression can still have a negative answer.
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Learning objective
Apply the same precedence rules consistently to multiplication, division, addition and subtraction.
Worked example
4 × 2 + 5 = 8 + 5 = 13.
Division and multiplication are performed left to right, before addition. Multiplying 6 × 2 first would change the expression.
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