5th grade order of operations with parentheses worksheets

Your child evaluates expressions with parentheses, working inside them first and then multiplying and dividing before adding and subtracting. Other questions ask what the parentheses say to work out first, how the value changes if they are taken away, or in which step a student's work first goes wrong.

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

Sample problems

  1. Sample 1(12 + 9) × 6 = ?

    Answer: 126

  2. Sample 25 × (17 − 7) = ?

    Answer: 50

  3. A bit harder29 − 2 × (3 + 7) = ?

    Answer: 9

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Order of operations with parentheses