Order of operations with brackets

Difficulty Standard · Set l6mvsm

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1
(12+8)×8=
2
(12+2)×9=
3
(2+2)×5=
4
(8+7)×7=
5
(10+3)×3=
6
(5+3)×3=
7
(7+2)×2=
8
(5+9)×2=
9
(2+2)×8=
10
(2+4)×7=
11
(5+6)×9=
12
(4+2)×4=
13
(6+7)×6=
14
(8+4)×4=
15
(7+9)×6=
16
(7+9)×8=
17
(6+9)×5=
18
(5+5)×7=
19
(8+9)×6=
20
(10+5)×7=

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 2 to 12.
Every problem in it will have brackets to clear first.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the brackets were ignored; whatever is inside them is worked out first.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 204 different ones, 85% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 5 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.

Next to this

Order of operations with three terms

Numbers 2–12; every one will have no brackets, so the order of operations decides.

Order of operations with four terms

Numbers 2–12; every one will carry four terms.

All of order of operations

4 skills in this topic, 12 sets between them.

Printing it

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