Activity Description This activity allows the user to practice order of operations with addition / subtraction, multiplication / division, exponents, and parentheses. Order of Operations Quiz is one of the Interactivate assessment quizzes.

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Order of Operations Quiz

Place in mathematics curriculum:

This activity can be used to:

• Give students practice with basic math skills.
• Develop students mental math skills.

This activity allows a user to practice using the order of operations. The user can choose to answer problems which use addition / subtraction, multiplication / division, exponents, and parentheses. They can also choose the difficulty level. This activity would work well individually for about 15-20 minutes.

Preparations for this activity:

• Explain how to apply the order of operations.
• Encourage students to try more difficult problems and decrease the allowed time.
• Prevent any disputes and taunting between winners and losers.
• Explain why an exponent takes higher precedence than a negation.
• Explain why negation is considered to be an operator.