MA.7.NSO.2.1 · Number Sense and Operations and Algebraic Reasoning

Order of Operations with Rational Numbers: Sample FAST Questions

Students solve multi-step order of operations problems with rational numbers, including grouping symbols, whole-number exponents, and absolute value. Expressions stay at six steps or fewer, but they mix signed fractions and decimals, so the order the steps happen in decides the answer.

How the FAST tests this benchmark

The FAST tests this with equation editor items where students enter the exact value of an expression. The errors that cost points are working left to right instead of by the order of operations, dropping a negative inside absolute value bars, and squaring a negative base that was never wrapped in parentheses.

Skills students need

Evaluate expressions with nested grouping symbols
Apply whole-number exponents within the order of operations
Treat absolute value bars as a grouping symbol
Compute with signed fractions and decimals in the same expression

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Question 1EasyEquation Editor

An expression is shown.

(7 + 2) \cdot 4 - 10

. What is the value of the expression?

Enter the number only. Do not include units like $, %, or ft²

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Question 5HardMatching

Match each expression to its value.

Pick one match in each row, then check.

	54	26	16	$-10$
$4^{3} \div 8 + 2 \cdot (-3)^{2} - 10$
$4^{3} + 8 - 2 \cdot (-3)^{2}$
$4^{2} \div 2 + 2 \cdot (-3)^{2}$
$4^{3} \div 8 - 2 \cdot (-3)^{2}$

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