Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Parentheses
This entry explains the uses for parentheses and provides examples.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Evaluate Expressions With Parentheses
Solve multi-step expressions with parentheses. Place parentheses in an expression to make the expression equivalent to a given number. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a...
Get It Write
Get It Write: Punctuating With Parentheses
Here's a great tutorial that explains when to put commas inside or outside the parentheses. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Practice: Translate Expressions With Parentheses
Activity provides questions that test understanding of how to translate expressions with parentheses. Immediate feedback is given and hints or a video are available if needed.
Other
Tidewater Community College Writing Center: Practical Punctuation Guide
This site contains practical and useful information about the following: commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, parentheses and brackets, ellipsis points, quotation marks, and apostrophes. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Period
An excellent resource detailing the uses and rules of the grammatical element "the period." Also includes information about the period in sentences, quotation marks, parentheses, and abbreviations.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Punctuation
Punctuation is the point of this lesson. You'll learn to put the right dots and squiggles in the appropriate places in your writing. You'll review the conventions of punctuation used in academic English. Then you will apply what you...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Words to Expressions 1
This problem allows students to see words that can describe the expression from part (c) of "5.OA Watch out for Parentheses." Additionally, the words (add, sum) and (product, multiply) are all strategically used so that the student can...