Expression Evaluation
Understanding mathematics notation is, well, essential to understanding mathematics. The material here discusses what we mean by the concept of an expression, and how one reads an expression in order to evaluate it. You evaluate an expression in order to find its value. The expression's value is what number it equals.
We will center on the concepts of operators and operands and look at expressions as if they were animated in our imagination. A few animations are presented in an effort to get these ideas across.
Precedence is covered here, and usually students learn that quite early in their study of mathematics. Often, though, a person is not exposed to the following way of interpreting a math expression in terms of its operators and operands.
It is probably best that you start with the first link below and work your way down through the list.
Other Representations Besides Numbers for Values
Introduction to Operators and Operands
More about Operators and Operands
And Now Including Variables and Functions