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Teacher Resources for BODMAS (PEMDAS)
A complete set of teacher resources for the order of operations — known as BODMAS in Australia and the UK, and PEMDAS in the US. Lesson plans, worksheets, question banks and assessments take students from brackets and exponents through to addition and subtraction, with worked examples and progressive practice for grades 6 to 10.
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What’s Included in the Resources for BODMAS?
🔥Curriculum Aligned
Aligned to the standards your students are taught against — the Australian Curriculum (v9) and the Common Core State Standards both place the order of operations in middle-school number sense. Every worksheet, lesson and question covers the same rule, with the right vocabulary for your classroom.
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🌍 Differentiated for Students
Differentiated for the spread of ability you actually have in front of you — entry questions for students still building confidence with brackets, extension questions for students ready to handle nested expressions, exponents and negative numbers.
💡Incredible Teacher Resources
Each set scaffolds from foundational practice (single-step brackets, two-operation expressions) through to more complex tasks (nested brackets, multi-step expressions with exponents) so you can take a class from first introduction to confident application across two to three lessons.
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Interactive Resources
Practice Questions
Built to save you preparation time — lesson plans, slide decks, worksheets, question banks and assessments all share the same examples and vocabulary, so a unit on the order of operations holds together end to end without you stitching resources from different publishers.
Structured Solutions
Differentiated Questions
Each resource introduces the order of operations as one rule with two acronyms — BODMAS (Brackets, Orders, Division and Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction) or PEMDAS (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division, Addition and Subtraction). Students learn that multiplication and division are equal in rank and worked left to right, the misconception that drives most marks lost on these questions.
Real-World Applications
Engaging Exercises
Problems are framed in contexts students recognise — budgeting a class trip, doubling a recipe, calculating sports scores — so the order of operations stops being an abstract acronym and starts being the rule that gets the right answer. Worked solutions give you a model to demonstrate and students a reference to check their own work.
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What Is Covered in the Resources for BODMAS
Foundational BODMAS Understanding
For grades 6 and 7, the introductory resources establish the order of operations as a single rule with two common acronyms (BODMAS in Australia and the UK, PEMDAS in the US). Lessons walk students through brackets, exponents, multiplication and division, then addition and subtraction, with worked examples that surface the most common error — treating multiplication as always coming before division. Practice questions move from single-step expressions to two-operation problems with clear scaffolding.
Expanding Application of BODMAS Rules
For grades 8 and 9, resources extend the rule to multi-step expressions, nested brackets, and problems that mix exponents with negative numbers. Worksheets and question banks pair routine practice with worded problems drawn from sport, finance and measurement so students apply BODMAS in contexts that match what they see in class assessments. Solutions are written out fully so you can model the thinking, not just the answer.
Mastering Complex BODMAS Problems
For grades 9 and 10, advanced resources cover algebraic expressions, fractional and decimal coefficients, and problems where the order of operations is one step inside a larger algebra or geometry task. Assessments and extension questions challenge students to explain their reasoning and identify where mistakes were made, building the habits that hold up under exam conditions.
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