Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division - Order of operations - Worksheet

The worksheet titled "Order of Operations" from masterthecurriculum.co.uk is designed to enhance Year 6 students' understanding of the order of operations in mathematical calculations involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The National Curriculum objective for this lesson is to use knowledge of the order of operations to correctly solve calculations that include the four operations. The resources provided for this lesson include differentiated worksheets and teaching slides. The key vocabulary for this lesson includes terms such as 'operations', 'order of operations', 'mixed operations', and 'calculation'. Students will explore how the order in which operations are performed can significantly affect the outcome of a calculation, especially when dealing with mixed operations. They will also learn that when there is no operation sign indicated, multiplication is implied, as in the expression 4(2 + 1).

Throughout the lesson, students will be encouraged to use brackets to ensure calculations with two to five operations yield the correct results. The worksheets guide students to insert brackets into given calculations to make the statements true. For example, in the problem where Lily has 3 bags with 5 sweets each and adds one sweet to each bag, students must determine the correct calculation to find the total number of sweets. They will also correct errors in provided calculations, such as those made by characters like Teddy, Isabella, and Jack, who have miscalculated the total number of sweets, bananas, and apples respectively. The worksheet includes reasoning and problem-solving tasks where students continue to apply the order of operations, using brackets and indices to reach the correct answers. By the end of the lesson, students should be adept at understanding and applying the correct order of operations to a variety of mathematical problems.