Practicing Order of Operations with the Four Fours Problem


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For this challenge, students need to write the numbers 1 through 20 with expressions, using only four 4s, any of the 4 operations and parentheses.

For example:

  • 1 can be written as 4/4 + 4 – 4
  • 20 can be written as (4/4 + 4) x 4