Order of operations without parentheses worksheets

Work out expressions with four numbers and the four operations, multiplying and dividing before adding and subtracting.

What is on this worksheet

Work out expressions with four numbers and the four operations, multiplying and dividing before adding and subtracting.

  • Include: Four operations (no brackets)

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About order of operations worksheets

Choose expressions with the four operations only, with brackets, with exponents (squares and cubes), or with both brackets and exponents. Any brackets in an expression really change the answer, and in the plain four-operation expressions reading left to right gives a different answer. Every step comes out as a whole number of at least 2, so nothing is trivial.

Expressions never divide by something and then multiply without brackets, so there is only one reasonable value for each one. The solved example works through the steps one at a time and names each step, and the answer key gives the final value.

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