PEMDAS (simple)
PEMDAS (complex)
Order of Operations
Brain Teasers
Translating
100
5 - 3 + 2 =
4
100
4² - 1² =
15
100

Find the value of the expression 6 + 1 x 5

11
100

Who is bigger: Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby?

The baby, he is a little bigger.


(I am laughing at the looks on your faces!)

100
Translate this to math: Two times a number n.
2n
200
(10 - 2) x 5 =
40
200
(11 – 6) + 2²
9
200

Find the value of the expression -4/2 + 9

7
200

How far can a rabbit run into the woods?

Halfway. After that, he is running out of the woods.


(I can almost hear the groaning!)

200
Translate this to math: One more than three times a number n
3n + 1
300
3² =
3 x 3 = 9
300
(9 x 2 – 8) + 10
20
300

Find the value of the expression 5 - 8 / 4

3
300

Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

Mt. Everest, it just hadn't been discovered yet.


(I can barely breathe I am laughing so hard.)

300
Translate this to math: Two less than five times a number n.
5n - 2
400
(4 - 2)(7 - 4) =
6
400
(6 + 30 x 2 – 1) - 8² =
1
400

Find the value of the expression 3 - 0 x 11

3
400

A family lives in a large tower apartment building, 10 floors high. Every day their son takes the elevator from the family’s apartment on the 10th floor to the ground floor and goes to school. When he returns in the afternoon, he uses the elevator to get to the fifth floor, and then uses the stairs for the remaining five floors. Why?

He is not tall enough to reach any of the buttons above the 5th floor.


(Are you having fun yet????)

400
Translate this to math: 4 times the sum of a number n and 10.
4(n + 10)
500
10 - 3 x 2 + 4 =
8
500
12 + 6² ÷ (1 + 4 x 2) - 3 x 2² =
4
500

Find the value of the expression 48 / 4 (-4 x 3) + 2

-142
500

I do not have any special powers, but I can predict the score of any football game before it begins. How can I do this?

The score before any football game is always 0-0. It hasn't started yet.


(Do you guys miss me yet?)

500
Translate this to math: The quotient when 6 times a number n is divided by 12
6n / 12
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