Hi All,

I'm trying to create a spreadsheet that will generate an assignment
for my students on the use of "BEDMAS" - order of operations. I plan
to print it out and give it to them, and that part is working fine. I
am having trouble getting Excel to take the data and calculate it. I
know it's possible, but I just can't get it to work. :-)

Here's what I've got in cells (for example):

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N

a) ( 4 "" * "" 2 ) - "" 7 "" = ______
b) "" 3 "" + ( 4 "" * "" 8 ) = ______

I've managed to concatenate b through L so that it reads (4*2)-7, but
I can't find a way to get Excel to actually compute that answer. Is
there anyone out there that has any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Dave