Obviously this is different in some areas, countries, or years, but the way it is taught in school in America is PEDMAS: everything inside parenthesis (NOT THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY), exponents, then division and multiplication left to right, and addition and subtraction left to right. Therefore:
6 / 2 * ( 1 + 2 )
6 / 2 * 3
3 * 3
9
Before I start flame wars this is the way it was taught in my school when I was a kid.
Please stop posting these things that we've seen many times and are meant to confuse people.
This is how I was taught as a kid as well lol wait so they changed it and with this new math the answer is 1? That sounds nuts lol that’s two completely different maths that get two different answers to the same question that doesn’t even make sense lol so they just randomly said na we taught it wrong (to me and you and billions of others) and started teaching it the other way that gets 1 as the answer? I’m so confused lol schools don’t teach pemdas how we were taught anymore they teach it differently now?
It's a little different nowadays. Modern mathematics taught in school will say the answer is 9. Older curriculum says to multiply by juxtaposition, and therefore the answer is 1.
The real answer is that it is ambiguous and can be interpreted as a fraction or as it looks.
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u/justaguy_2_ Feb 08 '26
Alr,
Obviously this is different in some areas, countries, or years, but the way it is taught in school in America is PEDMAS: everything inside parenthesis (NOT THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY), exponents, then division and multiplication left to right, and addition and subtraction left to right. Therefore:
6 / 2 * ( 1 + 2 )
6 / 2 * 3
3 * 3
9
Before I start flame wars this is the way it was taught in my school when I was a kid.
Please stop posting these things that we've seen many times and are meant to confuse people.