What's the Order of Operations?

What's the Order of Operations?

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Check out this tutorial where you'll see exactly what order you need to follow when you simplify expressions. You'll also see what happens when you don't follow these rules, and you'll find out why order of operations is so important!

Keywords:

  • definition
  • skill
  • order of operations
  • simplify
  • simplification
  • expression
  • evaluate

Background Tutorials

  • Understand subtraction of rational numbers as adding the additive inverse, p - q = p + (-q). Show that the distance between two rational numbers on the number line is the absolute value of their difference, and apply this principle in real-world contexts.