This Year 5 Using Brackets to Indicate Parenthesis Application and Reasoning worksheet provides children with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and understanding of brackets to show parenthesis. Children must explain if brackets have been used correctly, explain similarities and differences between sentences using brackets and change the position of the parenthesis.

This worksheet is differentiated three ways to meet the needs of all your learners and provides two reasoning and one application question to work through. It can be completed independently, in pairs or with adult support.