There is an agreed order of operations in Maths called BIDMAS.

curriculum-key-fact BIDMAS stands for B rackets, I ndices, D ivision and M ultiplication, A ddition and S ubtraction.

All of these terms are fairly obvious except for 'Indices' - which are just powers, eg \(2^3\) or \(4^2\).

'Indices' are also known as 'orders', which gives us the term BODMAS (Brackets, Orders, Division and Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction).

So the order you should do your calculations in is: