Order of Operations With Decimals

Use Order of Operations With Exponents first if students need a refresher, then move to brackets, decimals and fractions. Save Find and Fix Order of Operations Mistakes and Add Parentheses to Make Each Equation True for review, since they ask students to explain the order.

Evaluate 12 decimal expressions like 2.5 + 1.2 × 3 and 9.6 ÷ (0.4 + 0.8) in the right order. The order of operations is the same with decimals: grouping, exponents, multiply and divide, then add and subtract. Example: 1.5 + 0.5 × 4 = 3.5. The directions on the page read: Find the value of each expression. Follow the order of operations. Show your steps in the space and write the value on the line. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade algebra, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with evaluate expressions. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

It means finding its value. Replace each variable with its number, then calculate. With a = 4 and b = 7, the expression 3a + b becomes 3 x 4 + 7, which is 19.

Exponents come right after parentheses and before multiplying and dividing. In 3 + 4 squared x 2, square 4 first to get 16, multiply by 2 to get 32, then add 3 to get 35.

Start with the innermost parentheses, then the brackets around them. On the brackets page, 2 × [10 minus (1 + 3)] becomes 2 × 6 = 12.

A division bar works like parentheses around the top and the bottom. Find the value of each first, then divide, so 10 + 2 over 4 minus 1 is 12 ÷ 3 = 4.