Students solve three real-world problems requiring PEMDAS — store totals, stickers given away, and cookies sold. Part B has five fill-in-the-blank word problems about student groups, hourly earnings with spending, and book shelf totals.
Real-world multi-step problems that require translating situations into PEMDAS expressions — including with exponents — connect the order-of-operations rules to practical arithmetic reasoning across all Grade 5 contexts.
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Order of Operations (PEMDAS)
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. A store sells 3 packs of pencils at $2 each and 2 notebooks at $5 each. Find: 3 × 2 + 2 × 5
A) $16
B) $25
C) $20
D) $30
2. Emma has 4² stickers and gives away 3 × 3. How many remain? Find: 4² − 3 × 3
A) 9
B) 7
C) 3
D) 39
3. A baker makes (6+4)×3 cookies then sells 2²×5 of them. How many remain?
A) 10
B) 15
C) 20
D) 25
4. A garden has 2 rows of (3+5) flowers plus 3² extra flowers. Total: 2×(3+5)+3²
A) 25
B) 22
C) 19
D) 28
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. A class has 5 groups of (2 + 4) students. Total: 5 × (2 + 4) = 30.
2. Sam earns $3² per hour, works 4 hours, then spends $6. He has 3² × 4 − 6 = $30.
3. A shelf holds 2³ + 3 × 4 books. That equals 20 books.
4. A recipe needs (8 − 3) × 2 + 5 cups of flour. That is 15 cups.
5. There are 6² ÷ 4 − 2 seats left in a theater. That is 7 seats.
Order of Operations (PEMDAS)
★ Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. A store sells 3 packs of pencils at $2 each and 2 notebooks at $5 each. Find: 3 × 2 + 2 × 5
A) $16
B) $25
C) $20
D) $30
2. Emma has 4² stickers and gives away 3 × 3. How many remain? Find: 4² − 3 × 3
A) 9
B) 7
C) 3
D) 39
3. A baker makes (6+4)×3 cookies then sells 2²×5 of them. How many remain?
A) 10
B) 15
C) 20
D) 25
4. A garden has 2 rows of (3+5) flowers plus 3² extra flowers. Total: 2×(3+5)+3²
A) 25
B) 22
C) 19
D) 28
★ Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1) A class has 5 groups of (2 + 4) students. Total: 5 × (2 + 4) = 30.
2) Sam earns $3² per hour, works 4 hours, then spends $6. He has 3² × 4 − 6 = $30.
3) A shelf holds 2³ + 3 × 4 books. That equals 20 books.
4) A recipe needs (8 − 3) × 2 + 5 cups of flour. That is 15 cups.
5) There are 6² ÷ 4 − 2 seats left in a theater. That is 7 seats.
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