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Order of operations: 5th grade math

Order of operations with parentheses, brackets, braces; write simple expressions. A free 5th grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: order of operations with parentheses, brackets, braces; write simple expressions.

Teach (10 min)

  • Do the grouping symbols first. Then multiply and divide, then add and subtract.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/numsense.g5_order?lesson=5-numsense-order-1&at=5

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. Work out the value: (7 + 6) × 9
  • 2. Work out the value: (5 + 6) × 3
  • 3. Work out the value: 7 × 3 − 1

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. Work out the value: (7 + 6) × 9
  2. Work out the value: (5 + 6) × 3
  3. Work out the value: 7 × 3 − 1
  4. Work out the value: 6 × 3 − 11
  5. Work out the value: 6 + 4 × 7
  6. Work out the value: 22 − 2 + 7
  7. Work out the value: 4 + 5 × 8
  8. Work out the value: 9 + 4 × 5
  9. Work out the value: 21 − 2 + 8
  10. Work out the value: 7 × 4 − 10
Answers
  1. 117
  2. 33
  3. 20
  4. 7
  5. 34
  6. 27
  7. 44
  8. 29
  9. 27
  10. 18

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Order of operations (5th grade)

  1. Work out the value: 11 + 6 × 9
  2. Work out the value: 6 × 4 − 6
  3. Work out the value: 4 × 5 − 16
  4. Work out the value: 5 × 6 − 12
  5. Work out the value: 20 − 2 + 5
  6. Work out the value: 8 × 7 − 54
  7. Work out the value: 2 + 2 × 4
  8. Work out the value: 5 × (3 + 5) − 4
  9. Work out the value: 8 × 2 + 5 × 7
  10. Work out the value: 3 × 7 + 7 × 9
  11. Work out the value: 5 × 6 + 4 × 4
  12. Work out the value: (10 − 6) × 7
Key
  1. 65
  2. 18
  3. 4
  4. 18
  5. 23
  6. 2
  7. 10
  8. 36
  9. 51
  10. 84
  11. 46
  12. 28

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