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Order of Operations Practice

A café team is packing snack boxes for a community event. Use the order of operations to check quantities and solve each puzzle. Remember BODMAS: brackets first, then orders (powers), then division and multiplication from left to right, then addition and subtraction from left to right. Show working where you can.

Warm-up: Check the packing totals

Work through each expression in the correct order. Each answer helps the café prepare its supplies.

1.The team packs 8 snack boxes, then adds 4 more boxes to each of 2 tables. Calculate: 8 + 4 × 2

2.There are 15 fruit cups. The team gives 3 groups of 4 cups to helpers. Calculate: 15 − 3 × 4

3.A jug holds 20 cups of juice. It is poured equally into 4 pitchers, then 6 cups are added to one pitcher. Calculate: 20 ÷ 4 + 6

4.A tray has 7 rows of buns, with 3 extra buns set aside. The team doubles the total. Calculate: (7 + 3) × 2

Multi-step café calculations

Take care with brackets, powers, and operations of equal priority.

5.A supply of 18 napkins is shared among (2 + 4) tables, then each table receives 3 extra napkins. Calculate: 18 ÷ (2 + 4) + 3

6.One batch uses 5 cups of flour, plus the square of 3 cups, minus 4 lots of 2 cups. Calculate: 5 + 3² − 4 × 2

7.The team makes (12 − 8) trays, with (3 + 2) muffins on each tray, then shares them among 4 tables. Calculate: (12 − 8) × (3 + 2) ÷ 4

8.The event has 24 drink tokens. After sharing them into groups of 6, the team adds 2 cubed bonus tokens and uses 5. Calculate: 24 ÷ 6 + 2³ − 5

Challenge: Catch the mistake

Explain your thinking as well as finding the answer.

9.A student says addition should be done first in 4 × (8 − 3) + 15 ÷ 3. Is this correct? Calculate the expression and state the first operation that should be completed.

10.Calculate (6 + 2)² ÷ 4 − 3 × 2. Show the order of operations that leads to your answer.

11.In your own words, explain why everyone needs to use the same order of operations when solving an expression. Include one example of how a different order could change an answer.