Rational Number Operations With Grouping

Use the decimals and fractions sheets first, then add grouping. The missing operations sheets work well as a short warm up, and the own numbers task works well as a take-home page.

Evaluate expressions with parentheses that mix fractions and decimals, like negative 0.5 by (3/4 minus 0.6). The directions on the page read: Find each value. Start inside the parentheses. Multiply or divide, then add or subtract. Show your work. Write answers as fractions or mixed numbers in simplest form. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 7th grade rational numbers, and it works the same at home or at school. At home, a student can work through it alone and then go over it with you, which shows quickly what is solid and what needs another look. In class it works as independent practice, homework or a warm-up, and you can print one copy or a full set.

Work inside parentheses first, then multiply and divide, then add and subtract. The same order holds for negatives, fractions and decimals. Rational Number Operations With Grouping practices all of it.

6 of the 7 do. Numerical Expressions From My Own Numbers has students use eight numbers from their own week, so there is no single answer to print.

Students write plus, minus, times or divide in each circle to make an equation true, such as 5.8 and negative 2.7 to make 8.5. There is one sheet with signed decimals and one with signed fractions.