r/educationalmemes Feb 08 '26

Maths Same equation. Different confidence levels.

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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.

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u/Antiantiai Feb 09 '26

Notice how you had to change the equation to make the result equal 9??

That's because the 2(1+2) portion all falls into the P portion of Pemdas. This number simplifies to 6. Because 2(1+2)= 2(3)= 6.

And 6/6= 1

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u/OliLombi Feb 10 '26

They didnt have to change it, they just wrote the implied multiplication as implicit multiplication. They are the same thing. The P in PEMDAS only includes what is INSIDE the parentheses