Bracket

Imagine you have a box with some toys inside. Now, you want to group the toys in a certain way. So, you take a piece of paper and write down the different groups you want to create. But now, you want to make sure that people reading your paper understand exactly which toys are in which group. This is where brackets come in.

A bracket is a symbol that we use to group things together. It looks like this: ( and ). The toys that you want to group together go inside the brackets. For example, if you want to group together all the dolls, you would write it like this: (dolls).

Brackets are also used in math. Imagine you have to add or subtract a bunch of numbers. But there are some numbers that you want to do something special with. Maybe you want to add them all together before you add or subtract the other numbers. To make sure you don't get confused, you use brackets to group those special numbers together.

For example, if you have to subtract 5 from the sum of 2 and 3, you would write it like this: (2+3) - 5. This means you add 2 and 3 together first (which gives you 5) and then you subtract 5 from that result.

So, in short, brackets are like boxes that we use to group things together, whether it's toys or numbers, to make sure we don't get confused.