Orders of Operation

 What is Order of Operations?

Orders of Operation are the rules that say which calculation comes first in an expression.

These rules include:

• parentheses first: ()
• then do exponents
• then do multiplies and divides from left to right
• then do the adds and subtracts from left to right

Parentheses

When you start an equation you start with parentheses first.

Exponents

The second thing to do in an equation. It is the little number above a number.

Multiply or Divide

This is the next step and they are equal to each other. You also start left to right.

Add or Subtract

These two are also both equal and you go from left to right.