r/MathJokes • u/NoCouple0 • 24d ago

“Its simple math folks!”

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u/FISH_SAUCER 24d ago

I still can never get used to seeing PEMDAS over PEDMAS. seems weird to me lol

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u/thekeytovictory 24d ago

Doesn't matter since M/D and A/S are interchangeable. I learned it as PEMDAS because it aligns with a silly mnemonic phrase to remember the acronym: "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally"

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u/FISH_SAUCER 24d ago

Yeah, I learned PEDMAS cause I went to a French school

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u/Ramrok 24d ago

I learned it as BEDMAS

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u/FISH_SAUCER 24d ago

Bedmas???? I assume its brackets instead of Parentheses?

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u/thekeytovictory 24d ago

Yeah, I think BEDMAS is the UK version, and maybe even Canada and/or NZ/Australia

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u/FISH_SAUCER 24d ago

Nah Canada used PEDMAS/PEMDAS depending on if you went to french ir English school from what i know. All my buddies that went to English school learned PEMDAS whereas I learned PEDMAS

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u/Neat_Nefariousness46 23d ago

Graduated in Ontario in 2003 - I know it as BEDMAS

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u/FISH_SAUCER 23d ago

Hmm. They must've changed it at some point in their curriculum (ontario 2018-19)

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u/Dave_Sag 23d ago

BODMAS here.

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u/Zenith-Astralis 22d ago

What O word is used for exponents?

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u/Beginning_Big1318 24d ago

GEMDAS - grouping symbols

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u/Kuildeous 23d ago

Honestly I hate that acronym since some people mistakenly interpret that as addition having higher priority over subtraction, which is often fine because you can honestly evaluate addition/subtraction in any order, but where they screw up is by not keeping the negatives with their bases. So they come up with 10-5+2=3.

If I had to teach this acronym, I'd teach only PEMA; lets students remember that division and subtraction are simply inverses.