Making your own sums

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Ray Lowe
Making your own sums
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
Number: BIDMAS (Order of operations)
Inside
Includes answers
Resource type
Worksheet
Student activity

A KS3 or lower KS4 countdown style activity to practice the order of operations.

Students are shown four cards with single-digit numbers on which can be combined as two- or three-digit numbers if needed and they used to make a calculation with a given answer.

Answers are given, but there may be other ways to get to the correct answer.

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5

10/01/2019

Brilliant as a starter for Y7 when they learn BIDMAS. They loved how they can find different answers for each question.

Marius Munteanu

05/11/2018

5

05/11/2018

Great resource - love this type of thing, gets their brains working!

Barry Hardiman

01/05/2018

5

10/01/2019

Brilliant as a starter for Y7 when they learn BIDMAS. They loved how they can find different answers for each question.

Marius Munteanu

05/11/2018

5

05/11/2018

Great resource - love this type of thing, gets their brains working!

Barry Hardiman

01/05/2018

Sorry about that. Something went wrong during the publication process. Now fixed.

Neil Hendry

10/04/2018

Great resource. The answers for exercise 2 seem to have gone awry on the pdf though.

Richard Claydon

07/04/2018

5