Brackets in Expressions
Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions and evaluate expressions containing these grouping symbols
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Can your child look at '3 × (4 + 5)' and work out the brackets first — getting '3 × 9 = 27' — rather than just multiplying left to right?
Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions and evaluate expressions containing these grouping symbols
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- Evaluate 3 × (4 + 5) by computing inside the parentheses first
- Evaluate {2 × [3 + (7 − 1)]} with nested grouping symbols
- Insert parentheses into an expression to make it equal a target value
“Can your child look at '3 × (4 + 5)' and work out the brackets first — getting '3 × 9 = 27' — rather than just multiplying left to right?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Multiplication & Division
- Age range
- Ages 10–11
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