GCSE – Lesson 7 – Arithmetic expressions

Curriculum KS4 Unit Lesson

This lesson has been designed to ensure that learners understand the rules of operator precedence when evaluating arithmetic expressions. They will be reminded of BIDMAS before investigating code that uses various arithmetic expressions. This lesson prepares them up for next lesson where they will begin to use conditions in programming.

Learning objectives

  • Evaluate arithmetic expressions using rules of operator precedence (BIDMAS)
  • Write and use expressions that use arithmetic operators (add, subtract, multiply, real division, integer division, MOD, to the power)
  • Assign expressions to variables

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