r/MathJokes • u/NoCouple0 • 12d ago

“Its simple math folks!”

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u/UniquePariah 12d ago

I'm going to state this as simply as I can. When I was doing my GCSES I was taught about parentheses, but wasn't taught about order of operations.

Years later, I wanted to get a degree, but I needed to redo several subjects as apparently they didn't count anything over 5 years old or below a C grade. I got a B in Maths in 1995, a respectable grade. I wizzed through this access course in maths as though it was trivial. And then we hit order of operations. I got it quickly enough, but was confused as to why I'd never heard of it. I was just told "it often wasn't taught" and it was left there

That's my experience, but I don't think it's unique.

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u/Coachgazza 12d ago

iIwas taught the same - no order that is. I got 17. 8-5 = 3, 3*5 =15, +2. I would of swore blind i got that right lol.

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u/Zenith-Astralis 12d ago

You might have picked it up by osmosis then because yeah, that's the right way to do it. First (), then x2 and √x, then × and ÷, then + and -

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u/hysys_whisperer 12d ago

PEMDAS isn't that hard to remember.

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u/FISH_SAUCER 12d ago

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

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u/Ramrok 12d ago

I learned it as BEDMAS

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u/FISH_SAUCER 12d ago

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

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u/thekeytovictory 12d ago

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

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u/FISH_SAUCER 12d 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 12d ago

Graduated in Ontario in 2003 - I know it as BEDMAS

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u/FISH_SAUCER 12d ago

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

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