• You don’t necessarily have to do parentheses first

    Yes, you do necessarily have to do it first

    What matters is that the things inside the parentheses are a group that you can’t break apart

    And outside, and you must do them first. You haven’t finished Brackets until you have 5(8-5)=15.

    10÷2+3-2*(2+1) you can do the division first

    only because you’ve separated that part with a plus sign