5-Step Order of Operations Worksheets

About This Worksheet Collection

This collection of 5-Step Order of Operations worksheets provides students with a high level of structured practice designed to develop mastery with extended PEMDAS reasoning. Each worksheet requires learners to apply at least five procedural steps, encouraging accuracy, persistence, and disciplined problem-solving. Through tasks involving parentheses, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, and sometimes missing values, students learn to navigate increasingly layered expressions with confidence.

The worksheets also integrate multiple formats-computation-based problems, missing-factor reasoning, error analysis, matching tasks, multiple-choice items, and real-world word problems-to strengthen conceptual understanding from multiple angles. As students move through progressively more complex expressions, they improve their symbolic fluency, analytical skills, and readiness for pre-algebra. This collection is ideal for warm-ups, guided instruction, centers, enrichment, and cumulative assessment.

Detailed Descriptions Of These Worksheets

5-Step Processing
Students evaluate ten expressions that require exactly five procedural steps. Each problem guides them through parentheses, multiplication or division, and sequential addition/subtraction in the correct order. This worksheet builds accuracy and fluency with long-form expression evaluation.

Spiral Review
This mixed-format worksheet includes evaluation tasks, missing-factor problems, and multiple-choice questions. Students strengthen multi-step reasoning by switching between problem types, reinforcing retention and preparing for more advanced PEMDAS challenges.

5-Step Multiple Choice
Learners evaluate detailed five-step expressions and choose correct answers from multiple-choice options. The activity promotes precision, strategic elimination, and careful tracking of procedural steps necessary for multi-step computations.

Missing Factors
Students find missing numbers that make each five-step expression true. This task supports algebraic reasoning, pattern recognition, and structural understanding as learners work backward within multi-step expressions.

Evaluation Word Problems
This worksheet includes real-life scenarios rewritten as five-step expressions. Students identify relevant quantities, determine appropriate operations, and apply PEMDAS to compute solutions. The problems strengthen mathematical modeling and applied reasoning.

Find the Error
Students analyze solved expressions, determine whether the solutions are correct, and fix any mistakes they find. This sheet builds strong error-detection habits, encourages explanation-based reasoning, and reinforces correct multi-step computation.

Mixed Review
This worksheet blends evaluation, missing-factor, and multiple-choice tasks requiring five-step problem-solving. Students demonstrate flexibility as they adapt PEMDAS skills across formats, preparing for tests and cumulative assessments.

Functional Word Problems
Learners translate narrative scenarios-such as ticket sales, food preparation, and organizing supplies-into five-step numerical expressions. Students strengthen modeling skills and deepen conceptual understanding by applying operations to realistic contexts.

Challenge Problems
Designed for advanced learners, this worksheet presents expressions with nested parentheses, layered operations, and large numbers. Students must think critically and apply structured reasoning to navigate complex multi-step tasks.

Final Review Test
This assessment-style worksheet combines evaluation items, missing-value tasks, multiple-choice questions, and a word problem. Students demonstrate comprehensive mastery of five-step order of operations skills across multiple formats.

Correct the Work
Students examine incorrectly solved multi-step expressions, identify the errors, explain the mistakes, and correct the work. This task builds precision, metacognition, and mastery of PEMDAS sequencing.

Evaluate the Expressions
Learners evaluate twelve expressions featuring nested parentheses and sequential operations. Students are expected to show all five steps clearly, strengthening computational accuracy and reinforcing mastery of complex operational order.