Order of Operations Jeopardy

PEMDAS practice students will actually ask to repeat, from single steps to full expressions and error-spotting. Free to copy, buzzers run on phones.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Parentheses First

$200
This is the value of (2 + 3) times 4.
What is 20?
$400
This is the value of 6 times (5 - 2).
What is 18?
$600
This is the value of (8 - 3) times (2 + 1).
What is 15?
$800
This is the value of 10 - (2 + 3).
What is 5?
$1,000
This is the value of (4 + 2) times (9 - 5).
What is 24?

Powers and Exponents

$200
This is the value of 2 to the third power.
What is 8?
$400
This is the value of 5 squared.
What is 25?
$600
This is the value of 10 squared.
What is 100?
$800
This is the value of 3 to the third power.
What is 27?
$1,000
This is the value of 2 to the fifth power.
What is 32?

Multiply and Divide

$200
This is the value of 8 times 3 divided by 4, worked left to right.
What is 6?
$400
This is the value of 18 divided by 3 times 5, worked left to right.
What is 30?
$600
This is the value of 6 times 4 divided by 8, worked left to right.
What is 3?
$800
This is the value of 9 times 8 divided by 2, worked left to right.
What is 36?
$1,000
This is the value of 7 times 6 divided by 2 times 3, worked left to right.
What is 63?

Add and Subtract

$200
This is the value of 10 plus 4 minus 3, worked left to right.
What is 11?
$400
This is the value of 20 minus 5 plus 8, worked left to right.
What is 23?
$600
This is the value of 15 plus 12 minus 6, worked left to right.
What is 21?
$800
This is the value of 40 minus 18 plus 7, worked left to right.
What is 29?
$1,000
This is the value of 50 minus 22 plus 9 minus 3, worked left to right.
What is 34?

Full Expressions

$200
This is the value of 5 plus 4 times 2.
What is 13?
$400
This is the value of (6 + 2) times 3 minus 5.
What is 19?
$600
This is the value of 10 minus 2 times 3.
What is 4?
$800
This is the value of (5 plus 3) times 3 squared.
What is 72?
$1,000
This is the value of 3 times the square of the sum of 4 and 2, minus 10.
What is 98?

Spot the Mistake

$200
A student evaluated 6 plus 2 times 5 by adding first and got 40, but this is the correct value using the proper order of operations.
What is 16?
$400
A student evaluated 24 minus 6 divided by 3 by subtracting first and got 6, but this is the correct value using the proper order of operations.
What is 22?
$600
A student evaluated 2 times the quantity 3 plus 4 by multiplying 2 and 3 first and got 10, but this is the correct value using the proper order of operations.
What is 14?
$800
A student evaluated 3 times 4 squared by multiplying 3 and 4 first and got 144, but this is the correct value using the proper order of operations.
What is 48?
$1,000
A student evaluated 5 plus 3 times 2 squared by adding first and got 32, but this is the correct value using the proper order of operations.
What is 17?

Final Jeopardy — The Rules

Working from left to right, these two operations are performed last when evaluating an expression.

What are addition and subtraction?

How to run this board

Order of operations mistakes are stubborn, so this board isolates each step before combining them. Early categories drill parentheses, exponents, and the left-to-right rules on their own; later ones mix everything into full expressions and ask students to spot the error in a worked problem.

The error-spotting category is the one to save for last, since it sparks the best arguments. Require teams to name the step where the work went wrong, not just the right answer, and you will hear exactly who understands the sequence.

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