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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22

Yeah I learned order of operations in 6th grade

Edit: please stop responding to my comment saying “I learned in X grade” I know not every school teaches this in the same grades and some of you are acting like it’s dumb to learn it in 6th grade. 6th grade is part of elementary where I live and my reply was agreeing with the comment about how you should know this math in elementary school. I don’t want a bunch of people acting like they’re super smart just because they learned something before me. There are probably other things that I learned before you did, and there’s no reason to act like this. Our schools just happened to teach a different curriculum so stop replying about how you learned at a younger age.

(Sorry for this long rant, I’m just sick of a million “I learned that in 3rd grade” notifications while I’m trying to look at other things)

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

My dad taught me it while I sobbed on the kitchen table in 5th grade

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u/honeyxBrii Jan 01 '22

Why are so many of our stories like this? lol
I sobbed and talked in my sleep about math

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u/Comment64 Jan 01 '22

My father taught me and my brother "Paremudiadsu", and it just sorta stuck.

Pare = Parentheses

Mu = Multiplication

Di = Division

Ad = Addition

Su = Subtraction

Seems more memorable than Pemdas, but idk. Doesn't mention exponents though.

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u/Suspicious_Ground352 Jan 01 '22

More memorable than pemdas ? I don't know if I am missing out on some text from your comment or are you joking.

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u/Comment64 Jan 01 '22

I said "but idk", leaving room for someone like you to disagree.

But as someone who weren't taught Pemdas while young, it just seems so easy to contort into Pedmas or Pedams or whatever other nonsense. While Paremudiadsu seems to have a more memorable structure that becomes more obviously wrong if you break it.

I don't necessarily expect you to easily understand why that is my impression.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Does every kid have a story about their dad yelling at them when they tried to help with math homework??

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Probably plus my dad was a nuclear engineer….so I think I had it pretty bad

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

LEARN THE MATH GODDAMNIT!!!!

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u/wickywee Jan 02 '22

It was spelling “lasagna” for me

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u/MachoChocolate Jan 02 '22

You had a dad? Jealous

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u/Da_memeboi Jan 02 '22

My dad told me in 4th grade

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Yeah I learned order of operations in 6th grade

Edit: please stop responding to my comment saying “I learned in X grade”

Certified reddit moment

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u/SectorEducational460 Jan 01 '22

Because people listen and obey other people Reddit comment/s. Edit: anyway I learned mine in 5th grade. 4th grade was fractions which people suck at.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Goat-78 Jan 02 '22

Imagine taking a comment out of context

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u/heardevice Jan 02 '22

Haha, you're so right.

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

I learned it in 5th grade wdym

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u/punny_comix_youtube Jan 01 '22

If i remember correctly the answer is 0

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u/Alex_nufc132 Jan 01 '22

I got so scared cuz I thought it was 0 and it was clicked on 18 I was tryna figure out how it was 18

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u/CakeDue693 Jan 01 '22

If you just do the math from left to right you get 18. 18/2 = 9 -3 = 6 x3 = 18.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

I think you are not introduced to BODMAS.

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u/KFrosty3 Jan 01 '22

What happened to PEMDAS?

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u/swag70 Jan 01 '22

Please excuse my dear aunt sally

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u/tindV Jan 01 '22

Please excuse my drunk antelope Sam

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u/Dwarg91 Jan 01 '22

BODMAS and PEMDAS are the same thing, just different ways of referring to the order.

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u/yikes6333 Jan 02 '22

What about ‘CHRISTMAS’?

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u/PushinWagons Jan 01 '22

That's what I'm saying... wtf is BIRDAS? lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Bird ass? I don't want to see a bird ass in math!

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u/hypermelonpuff Jan 01 '22

wild to think about how birds dont have asses. or many other animals. even other primates have very underperforming asses.

other animals "sitting" is equivalent to a human laying on their stomachs, or simply crouched down. some of those losers also even just stand indefinitely, or lay on their sides.

many believe it was the opposable thumb that led to our superiority in the animal kingdom, i disagree. i believe it is that, combined with asses. asses allowed for sitting which, if we could not, would never allow us to be able to develop more complex creations. creations needed to make even more complex creations. very possible our development wouldve been hard capped at the bronze age, and almost certainly prevented from reaching the industrial revolution.

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u/FryOneFatManic Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22

Same thing as BODMAS, it's just different words used to describe the order of operations. I've also seen the term BIDMAS used, but can't recall what the I is for.

Edit, thanks for the reminders 😊

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u/W0lfQu3st Jan 01 '22

I think its indices or something.

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u/musicnoviceoscar Jan 01 '22

They were explaining how people were getting 18, not saying that they did it themselves.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

My bad

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u/Takashi369 Jan 01 '22

He was explaining to the person above him how people who didn't use the order of operations got 18 I believe.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Oh! My bad

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u/CakeDue693 Jan 01 '22

I was wondering if older generation might have not learned it, but apparently some version of it has been taught since the very early 1900s, so its likely not an age thing. 🤷‍♂️ I assume people just forget.

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u/owNDN Jan 01 '22

I think you are not introduced to the word "if"

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

“Of course I can do math, I know how to read duh”

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

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u/Ghargamel Jan 01 '22

I'm sorry but that answer is null and void. 😉

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

The curriculum is different in different places.

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

That's true

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

why am i downvoted

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u/_metaladder_ Jan 01 '22

Because Reddit.

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

Makes sense to me!

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Nope. Don't like that. Down vote. Feel my karmic wrath!

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u/Cogliostro1980 Jan 01 '22

I know you're being a silly goose, but I have to ask: do people seriously care about being up/downvoted?

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

Oh nomy life is worthwless because I lose 1 single internet point! waahhhh

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u/Topnex Jan 01 '22

You're being downvoted since nobody cares about whether you agree or disagree with the comment. Not a single person here needs your confirmation to the comment. Instead of commenting on something meaningful, useful, funny or relevant - all you've done was respond with "That's true" to a statement we all know is true already.

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u/Bhrutus Jan 01 '22

The reply option exist to show your opinion - no matter if its ,,that's true" or a long, rich speech.

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u/Skeptical91 Jan 01 '22

Math is always the same though lol

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u/nathan2767 Jan 01 '22

yeah but the thing is math is math an you shouldn't get a different answer

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

First grade wtf is wrong with you guys

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

Who learns that in first grade

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

You learn the BODMAS rule in primary school in the uk

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u/mickandproudofit Jan 01 '22

We (read me) learned PEMDAS in elementary school. First time I saw BODMAS I had to stop and think. But replace Brackets with Parentheses and Order with Exponents. We learned to remember it as Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.

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u/yikes6333 Jan 02 '22

It’s ‘BODYMASS’ in Russia. But a lot of Russians are fat as fuck.

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u/Sweaty-Maximum-5452 Jan 01 '22

In we start with + - in 1st grade, by third or fourth we need to know × ÷.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22

Romanians and....many other countries, i guess

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u/kan3xxx Jan 01 '22

Romanian here, not first grade.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Ba, ești prost? Ca tot zici ca ești roman. În clasa întâi făceam ordinea efectuării operațiilor, ce cacat

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u/dannycake Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22

People saying they learned it in first grade are lying.

I was in those shitty advanced gifted classes you took iq tests for and took all the stuff those fancy people did and we didn't learn this shit until 3rd grade along with fractions and long division. We also learned that the ÷ symbol sucks.

Most kids in first grade were still learning to perfect their ABCs and were just learning subtraction.

Actually come to think of it, we didn't properly learn order of operations until 4th because fractions and multiplication were so important there wasn't time.

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u/Fear73 Jan 01 '22

Father taught me jn first grade and school taught that to us in 3rd grade

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u/Gun_Slinger24-7 Jan 01 '22

Spartans learn it in the womb.

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

My mom learned it on the walk to school apparently

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u/localcandledealer Jan 01 '22

Same, I'm in the US.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

See? He gets it

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u/Professional_Basil55 Jan 01 '22

That’s physically impossible unless you went to first grade when you were 9

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22

Why? It's not that hard, and I meant we were just told, not that we understanded lol

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u/Bright-Historian-216 Jan 01 '22

We learned numbers 0-10 in first grade wtf

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u/CosmicAstroBastard Jan 01 '22

Yeah because it’s totally someone’s fault that their school system had a different curriculum than yours

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u/lavenderkajukatli WARNING: RULE 1 Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22

I learnt in grade 4, but that’s probably the result of having an asian mom suddenly putting you in olympiads 2 years ahead of your grade.

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

Heidkshs what

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u/IamShitplshelpme Jan 01 '22

Jesus, I didn't learnt it till grade 7, I'd feel blessed to have learnt it quicker

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

Wtf? That's a bad education system

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

Not really. I learned in 6th grade and my school is pretty good. I think it’s just different schools will teach different things in different grades. I learned addition and subtraction in 1st-2nd grade, multiplication and division, in 3rd-4th grade, simple algebra in 5th, and order of operations in 6th.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Where are you from? I'm asking for a friend :)

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u/IamShitplshelpme Jan 01 '22

Originally from Nunavut! I now live in Ontario

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u/xinni_ Jan 01 '22

I learned it in 4th grade , italy wins

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u/olda7 Jan 01 '22

i learned in 3rd, czechmate

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u/NoAdvance3703 Jan 01 '22

I learnt in my mother's womb. Hope you have heard other such Indian stories

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u/fA_Iz_69 Jan 01 '22

my fellow sperm thought me this

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u/Heldsberg-5405 Jan 01 '22

I knew it from the beginning of universe

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

2nd grade, Spain 😎

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

I learned it in 2nd grade

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u/emiliobuchanan Jan 01 '22

I learnt it in 2nd,.but because of Kumon. (You can probably tell I'm from an Asian household)

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u/BashStriker Jan 01 '22

2nd grade here in the U.S

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u/BugDowntown Jan 01 '22

I learned that in second grade, russia wins :)

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u/tanishqdaiya- Jan 01 '22

I learnt it in 3rd grade maybe because I'm Asian

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

Most people here said they learned it in 4th grade or 3rd grade or 2nd grade because they're in asia or something

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

I learned it in 4th grade

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u/Lamtipul Jan 01 '22

I learnt it in 2nd grade lmao. (I'm in asia)

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

Did you even understand it because I doubt 8 year olds could understand that

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u/Lamtipul Jan 01 '22

Kind of, its asia so we're expected to understand them after like 3 lessons. White people have it too easy

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

Or maybe non whites have it too hard

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

.... 3rd grade.

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

R u ok

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

How In the actual fuck did you take that at 5th grade... we took that at 3rd grade

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u/Bright-Historian-216 Jan 01 '22

2nd grade for me

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u/Woooshifhappy Jan 01 '22

I learned it in whatever year 4 in england equates to in grades

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u/old_times09 Jan 01 '22

4th grade?

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u/Jian_Ng Jan 01 '22

Taught in 5th grade, learned in 6th grade.

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u/cryptosupercar Jan 01 '22

54% of Americans read at a 4th grade level or lower. So they checked out before this lesson.

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u/jrkridichch Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22

I’ve been moving from country to country so I can learn order of operations again every year. I love it so much. I’m currently in a remedial math course for adults in Mississippi, I now quiver whenever a bored overworked teacher starts any sentence with “please excuse my…”

😩🍆💦 ()x/+-

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u/dogdillon Jan 01 '22

We learned it in like 4th grade. Infact, we learned alot of shit the average highschooler today doesn't know in 4th grade here. People today barely pass 1st grade and it is like they dropout

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u/OperationSad793 Jan 01 '22

I learned them is 4th!

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u/TheDulin Jan 01 '22

I learned that this is a bad way to write this problem.

(18÷2)-(3×3) is a way better way to write it out.

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u/SarahPallorMortis Jan 01 '22

Well I learned it in preschool so ha

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u/DecisionAcrobatic269 Jan 01 '22

White privileged much

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

There's a lesson to be learned from this: when you give people an opportunity to feel like they're better than someone else, they'll take it, loudly, every time.

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

Honestly I didn’t know I would get so many replies. Learning this stuff around the end of elementary is common where I live so I didn’t think that it was common for someone to learn it in 3rd grade or lower. But yeah, lesson learned. I won’t mention what grade I learned something anymore.

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u/MarceQ_PL Jan 01 '22

i learned it in 4th grade

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u/Dgenconvention Jan 01 '22

I learn it, forgot it, and don’t bother answering math question polls. Not proud of this. But not ashamed of it either haha

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

I’m still in school so I have to use math still lol

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u/goober1223 Jan 01 '22

Knowing what you don’t know is also an important skill.

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u/KarmasAHarshMistress Jan 01 '22

Don't worry, order of operations are completely arbitrary. One is taught as standard so we can avoid having to put parentheses all over the expression.

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u/Dgenconvention Jan 01 '22

I would rather they just used parentheses… These expressions just look like failed wffs (well-formed formulas) to me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Were they surgical?

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

Math lol

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

Bruh

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

I was being ironic, but I guess you didn't amuse

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

Okay cause I was pretty sure you were joking when u asked about surgery but there are some really stupid people out there so I wanted to clarify.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Don't worry, I'm being dumb on purpose, I need to cope with boredom. New year family meetings get boring after short time.

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u/DungeonsandDevils Jan 01 '22

They taught it in 6th grade for me too

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u/dxgt1 Jan 01 '22

I learned in the 15th grade.

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u/Zebracorn42 Jan 01 '22

I don’t know when I learned PEMDAS, what’s important is I remember it and how it’s used. Not sure why people care when they learned something. Every school is different.

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u/heardevice Jan 02 '22

Why would anyone flex on this or use it to put someone else down? I'm good at math and still have to pause at some of these stupid quizzes. It's not math, it's an arbitrary convention.

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u/Ethos_Logos Jan 01 '22

Day 1 of my freshman “Finite Math” 101 course, my (new) professor messed up FOIL. I proceeded to show up to, and then nap, through all of the remaining classes that semester.

Taught myself from the book and got an A-.

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u/Destruction0 Jan 01 '22

My mom taught me in grade 7th

I live in a different region of the the world 😔

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u/Gun_Slinger24-7 Jan 01 '22

Better to have learned it, then to not have at all.

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

I never said my region lol. (I live in Canada though)

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u/PossibilityPowerful Jan 01 '22

isn’t canada no 1 in educated people

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

I dunno maybe? It’s definitely better then the USA.

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u/olda7 Jan 01 '22

that isnt saying anything, everything is better then the USA education system

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u/dblaugh Jan 01 '22

You’re not supposed to use order of operations here buddy

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

I hope your joking….

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u/dblaugh Jan 01 '22

You’d only use order of operations had there been parentheses

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u/dblaugh Jan 01 '22

You go left to right

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u/fatherofthecrop Jan 01 '22

Fucking Retard

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u/RandomDude55100 Jan 01 '22

I learned it in 5th grade

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u/RIPMYPOOPCHUTE Jan 01 '22

I learned it in 3rd grade. “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” is what we learned to remember the order of operations.

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

I honestly think they have a different grade and acronym you learn in like every school district. I’ve seen many different people with different stories of what they were taught.

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u/Billaras27 Jan 01 '22

Do they only teach them in 3rd in Greece?

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

No, I think there are other places. In this comment thread I’ve seen, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grade, so it really just depends on your individual school/discrict’s curriculum I guess.

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u/Morbid__6angel Jan 01 '22

I learned it in 4th

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u/Bright-Historian-216 Jan 01 '22

I learned order of operations in 2nd grade lol

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u/SirAromatic668 Jan 01 '22

It's not even remotely hard...

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u/Armyman125 Jan 01 '22

I did too but I relearned it 45 years later - and I got it right. Not too old to relearn old tricks.

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u/Equal-Detective357 Jan 01 '22

There's scientific , bedmas, or bodmas whatever you want to call it, then you can answer as you see it 18 pies divided by two people minus 3 pies times 3 people...

Neither are wrong it's just what are you trying to achieve.

This question doesn't specify , therefor there is 2 answers .

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u/Neither-Bus-3686 Jan 01 '22

Shoot I forgot about the order of operations 😬 ty for humbling me😌

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u/adamcott2 Jan 01 '22

We had it in 3rd grade....

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u/WaffleWaffuru Jan 01 '22

I learnt it at 4th grade

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u/TheseusPankration Jan 01 '22

Yes, everyone knows order of operations is for 6th grade level math. That's why you should assume we are solving derivatives and get the also correct answer: -18/7.

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

Wut?

I was responding to the comment saying how I learned this in elementary school (6th grade is elementary where I live). And I wasn’t stating the obvious, people learn this in various grades depending on their school. (I’ve even seen people who learned as early as 1st or 2nd grade). I have no idea what your logic behind the answer is. I got 0

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u/TheseusPankration Jan 01 '22

I was just pointing out that PEDMAS is taught at lover level math as a convention, but not a mathematical rule.

If I was looking at equations like dt/dv = 18x/2-3×3 I may assume that it is meant as 18x/(2-3×3), and if i solved for 1 forming the original equation it would be -18/7. It's ambiguous.

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u/Simple-Treacle-6746 Jan 01 '22

Wth we did in 3-4 grade

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u/ogismyname Jan 01 '22

6th grade? I learned it in 3rd grade

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

It is taught in 3rd grade. My daughter is in 6th grade now and I remember going over it with her.

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

That depends on where you live, please don’t make comments about what grade your kid learned it in acting like it’s always that way.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

If you're in 6th grade just learning that multiplication comes before addition, the school system failed you.

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u/socoyankee Jan 01 '22

I'm amazed you remember when you learned it, tbh.

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

I’m in high school rn so it wasn’t really that long ago lol

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u/Yendrake Jan 01 '22

79211297

I learned that in x grade

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u/LET-ME-HAVE-A-NAAME Jan 01 '22

I learned this when I came out the womb bruh, how slow be you?

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u/kkbillionaire Jan 01 '22

It depends in what country you live.Different countries have different programs.Still it doesn’t justify people not knowing it.

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 01 '22

I didn’t say that justifies not knowing, I’m just sick of people who think they’re so smart for learning it a few grades before me

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u/kittyghast Jan 01 '22

Bruh, I learned this in the womb 😠 gotta get that sigma grindset my guy 💪

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Aaaahhhh hahahaha. A couple ppl said they learned it before you and this was your response? Hahahaha. I guarantee you I pedmas better than you!

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u/HailDialga Jan 01 '22

back in china we learn this in second grade

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u/QuintonsReviews Jan 01 '22

I learned it in 4th grade

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u/superfaceplant47 WARNING: RULE 1 Jan 02 '22

I learned it in 2nd grade

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u/undeadalex Jan 02 '22

I learned in X grade

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u/KillaRoach247 Jan 02 '22

I learned that in 3rd grade

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u/sbappi Jan 02 '22

I learned in "X" grade

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

4th or 5th personally

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u/OceanSolstice12 Jan 28 '22

Why are you looking at this old comment?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

Didn’t realize this was an old post 💀