Order of Operations Color by Number: Digital & Printable

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What's inside this resource

Let your students practice and have fun with this engaging and interactive digital and printable, color-by-number activity. This fun and effective resource will let your students master order of operations (with no parentheses and no exponents).

Key Features:

12 Questions: your students will solidify their understanding of order of operations (with no parentheses and no exponents) through a series of challenging problems.
Self-Checking Activity: students will work at their own pace and immediate feedback allows students to identify and correct mistakes.
Engaging Color-by-Number Format: Transform practice into an exciting experience, motivating students to complete the exercises with enthusiasm.
Digital Version for Seamless Integration: Easily incorporate the activity into your classroom routine with the digital format. Simply share the link, and your students are ready to go.
No Preparation Required: Save precious time with print-and-go convenience or share the digital link instantly.

Possible Applications:

Practice: Provide your students with several opportunities to master their order of operations (with no parentheses and no exponents) skills.
Homework Assignments: Revise classroom concepts and reinforce understanding through fun homework assignments.
Review Material: Utilize the activity as a comprehensive review tool to prepare students for a test.
Emergency Substitute Lesson Plan: Ensure learning with a well-structured and engaging activity that requires no preparation.
Fun Friday Activity: End the week on a high note by engaging students in a fun and interactive way while reinforcing their knowledge of exponential functions.

Additional Benefits:

Solutions Included: Answer keys are provided for quick reference and easy grading.
Visual Appeal: The captivating color-by-number format enhances engagement and makes the learning process more fun.
Accommodates All Learners: Both digital and printable versions are included to cater to every type of learner and situation.

With its engaging format, comprehensive content, and versatile applications, Order of Operations Color by Number is an invaluable resource for educators seeking to enhance their students' understanding of order of operations.

This activity aligns with Common Core Standard 5.OA.A.1 Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Apply the order of operations (multiplication and division before addition and subtraction) to evaluate a numeric expression with no parentheses or exponents.
Self-check a calculated answer by matching it to one of several numeric choices, each tied to a specific color.
Complete a color-by-number picture by pairing twelve correct answers to their assigned colors.

Teaching tips

Use the solutions page, not just the color-by-number picture, to check for mid-problem errors, since a student can land on a plausible but incorrect answer among the numeric choices and color the wrong region without realizing which step went wrong.
Offer both the printable and digital versions so students working at different paces, or those in a digital classroom, can complete the same activity.
Assign this as review, homework, or a substitute-ready activity, since the self-checking color format needs no teacher walk-through to begin. Add parentheses to the challenge with this order-of-operations mystery-picture activity.

Skills covered

Order-of-operations without grouping symbols — students evaluate expressions like 9 - 5 + 8 x 8 by applying multiplication and division before addition and subtraction.
Self-verification through color-coding — students confirm a calculated answer is correct by finding it among the color-keyed choices rather than checking a printed key immediately.
Multi-step computation — students perform two or three chained operations per expression, such as 5 + 16 / 4 x 7, with no exponent or grouping symbol to resolve first.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

What operations do the twelve expressions use?

Only addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division — none of the twelve expressions include parentheses, brackets, or exponents, so the practice is entirely about ordering the four basic operations correctly.

How does a student know if they made a mistake partway through a problem?

If their calculated answer doesn't match any of the numeric choices offered for that problem, that's the self-checking signal that a step was done in the wrong order.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

5.OA.A.1 — Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols.

Core concepts

order of operations
multiplication and division before addition and subtraction
self-checking practice

Topics

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