5th grade order of operations with brackets and braces worksheets

Your child evaluates expressions that nest parentheses inside brackets and braces, such as 2 × [5 + (8 − 3)], working from the inside out. At the hardest level the expressions put braces around the brackets, so there are three layers to work through.

Common Core 5.OA.A.1 (Operations and Algebraic Thinking)

Sample problems

  1. Sample 1[(67 − 13) × 3] + 9 = ?

    Answer: 171

  2. Sample 2[(38 − 5) × 6] + 4 = ?

    Answer: 202

  3. A bit harder3 × [(12 + 2) − 5] + 15 = ?

    Answer: 42

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