Brackets in Expressions
Your child knows to work out brackets first. For 3 × (4 + 5), they add 4 and 5 first, then multiply to get 27.
In curriculum terms
Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions and evaluate expressions containing these grouping symbols
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Can your child look at '3 × (4 + 5)' and work out the brackets first — getting '3 × 9 = 27' — rather than just multiplying left to right?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 1 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
find unknown values in numerical equations involving brackets and combinations of arithmetic operations, using the properties of numbers and operations
create and use algorithms involving a sequence of steps and decisions that use rules to generate sets of numbers; identify, interpret and explain emerging patterns
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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