Order of Operations Practice

Order of Operations Practice

Circling Terms Strategy

Numerical terms are single numbers or products of numbers.  It is often useful to circle terms in an expression to keep track of separate calculations.  For example, each term circled in the expression at right represents a separate term.

Multiple Choice

7 + 3(5 +1) has how many terms?

• 1

• 2

• 3

Circling Terms Strategy

• Underline all addition and subtractions signs NOT in parentheses

• Circle everything on the sides of the underlines

• Evaluate each circle

• Solve

Multiple Choice

7 + 3(5 +1) =

• 60

• 16

• 25

Multiple Choice

5 + 2(6) + -1 + 10(-2) has how many terms?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

5 + 2(6) + (-1) + 10(-2)=

• 21

• -4

• 13

• 4

Multiple Choice

8(4 + -3) + 2(10 +(-7))=

• 14

• 30

• 19

• 0

Poll

How do you feel about using the circling terms strategy?

• Great, I got this.

• Ok, I can kind of do it.

• I am completely lost.