If you need order of operations worksheets that you can print right now, this page builds them for you — 20 fresh problems, an answer key underneath, and no account to create first. The current sheet starts with problems like (11 − 5) × 6 and 5 × (2 + 3), and the answers (36 and 25) are printed on the key so marking takes about a minute.
‘New set of problems’ opens the generator in its own tab. There you can change the problem count and turn the answer key on or off. ‘Print or save as PDF’ opens the print dialog — choose Save as PDF in the printer list to keep the file. The sheet fits US Letter and A4, and the answer key prints on its own page.
Brackets exist to override the convention, and children who understand that read expressions far more confidently than children who have memorised an acronym.
Order of operations is a convention, not a discovery, and it has to be taught as such. In (11 − 5) × 6 the multiplication is done before the addition, which is why the answer is 36 and not what left-to-right reading would give.
The expressions here use brackets and two operations, numbers under 100, so the arithmetic never obscures the structure being tested.
Every sheet is generated fresh, so the pattern of operations changes from page to page and cannot be learned by position.
In US classrooms these order of operations worksheets are commonly aligned with the expressions and equations expectations for this grade, though the exact wording varies from state to state.
| # | Problem | Answer | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (11 − 5) × 6 = | 36 | Watch for: doing brackets last instead of first |
| 2 | 5 × (2 + 3) = | 25 | Check: working strictly left to right |
| 3 | 7 × (9 + 9) = | 126 | Look at: ignoring the check |
| 4 | (12 − 4) × 5 = | 40 | Ask about: recopying the expression wrongly |
| 5 | 7 × (9 + 6) = | 105 | Watch for: treating multiplication as outranking division |
| 6 | 4 × (9 + 7) = | 64 | Check: dropping a negative sign |
Try 7 × (9 + 9) together before letting the child start alone. The answer to 7 × (9 + 9) is 126, and talking through how it was reached takes about a minute and saves several minutes of guessing later in the sheet.
The item 5 × (2 + 3) is worth doing slowly. The answer to 5 × (2 + 3) is 25, and the route to it is the route every other problem on this sheet takes — which is why the sheet has 20 of them rather than one.
Because the numbers are random, there is no shared answer list to look up: the key printed behind your sheet is the only one that fits it, and it shows 36 for (11 − 5) × 6.
Every generated sheet carries its own key on a separate printed page, which lets a child self-mark without seeing the answers while they work.
Printing works the same on US Letter and A4, because the layout uses relative widths rather than fixed inches. Set margins to default and scaling to 100%, and all 20 problems fit.
To save these order of operations worksheets instead of printing them, choose 'Save as PDF' in the printer list. You get the worksheet and the answer key as a single PDF, on Letter or A4 depending on your printer settings.
One sheet of order of operations worksheets a day for two weeks will tell you more about where a child working at this level actually stands than any single long assessment.
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Last updated: 2026-09-13