Operations Mastery Challenge (Grade 6)
The capstone mixes it all: order of operations, brackets, choosing operators, and working backward — often in two steps. The skill is fluency: reading what's asked, picking the right tool, and checking your answer by re-evaluating.
Understanding operations mastery challenge
The capstone mixes it all: order of operations, brackets, choosing operators, and working backward — often in two steps. The skill is fluency: reading what's asked, picking the right tool, and checking your answer by re-evaluating.
Key Idea
The capstone mixes it all: order of operations, brackets, choosing operators, and working backward — often in two steps. The skill is fluency: reading what's asked, picking the right tool, and checking your answer by re-evaluating.
Seeing it in action
Worked example
Evaluate (2 + 4) × 3 − 5.
Brackets first: 2 + 4 = 6. Then ×3: 18. Then −5: 13.
Choose the right operation tool and check the result.
Try a few
(10 − 4) ÷ 2 + 1
3 × (2 + 5) − 4
20 ÷ (2 + 2) × 3
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