Common Core · Grade 6
6.EE.A.2.C
Grade 6 — Evaluate expressions, performing the operations in the conventional order, including whole-number exponents.
The skill that covers it
What a student should be able to do
- Evaluate an expression using the correct order of operations.
- Explain why 2 + 3 * 4 is 14 and not 20.
- Handle nested parentheses and a fraction bar as a grouping symbol.
- Insert parentheses to make an expression equal a target value.