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Order of operations without use of brackets

Which step comes first when a calculation mixes adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.

5 episodes2 min in all

Play episode 1
  1. 0:27

    Episode 1

    Add and subtract from left to right

  2. 0:27

    Episode 2

    Multiply and divide from left to right

  3. 0:32

    Episode 3

    Which working is correct? (a)

  4. 0:32

    Episode 4

    Which working is correct? (b)

  5. 0:28

    Episode 5

    Multiply and divide before you add and subtract

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