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Overview
Overview
Your student will be learning:
- how to simplify (solve) expressions that may involve parentheses and brackets, but not exponents.
- Students should follow the correct Order of Operations.
- Parentheses/Grouping Symbols - (), []
- (*Exponents - will not be covered in 5th grade)
- Multiplication and Division - at the same time working left to right
- Addition and Subtraction - at the same time working left to right
- Students should follow the correct Order of Operations.
Resources
Resources
- Videos
- How to Solve Order of Operations Problems. This Math Motor video explains the Order of Operations. (Reminder, we do not use exponents in the fifth grade.)
- Free Apps
Five Dice: Order of Operations Game
Five Dice: Order of Operations Game
Your child will use five digital dice to create expressions that result in a target number.
- Websites
- Order of Operations Game. A game from Softschools that allows your child to practice following the correct Order of Operations.
- Operations Four!. This is a multi-player game from Interactivate that provides a chance to compete with solving equations.
- Royal Rescue. Mr. Nussbaum’s Royal Rescue game allows your child to solve equations in order to save a member of the royal family.
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