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Mathematics / Year 6 / Number and Algebra / Patterns and algebra

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Curriculum content descriptions

Explore the use of brackets and order of operations to write number sentences (ACMNA134)

Elaborations
  • appreciating the need for rules to complete multiple operations within the same number sentence
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Equations,  Order of operations

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