>tfw you realize that your failure at math is due to a misunderstanding of the order of operations
I just found out today, after finally deciding to go back to basics to figure out why I suck at math, that you go from left to right in multiplication/division and addition/substraction. I always thought multiplication took precedence over division and addition took place over substraction. No teacher has ever noticed that this is why I got math problems wrong.
Thanks public school education.
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>is stupid as fuck and didn't pay attention when PEMDAS was being taught
>i-its every1 elses fault!!
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>Thanks public school education.
This is your own fault, not your teachers.
There are textbooks there for you to pick up and read. Your exam results reflect your performance as a student, saying that your teacher or school was terrible means nothing to the person looking at your transcript.
And yes, I went to a public school myself and scored the maximum grade and I'm now studying at a world top 50.
I was taught the order of operations was PEMDAS
P
E
M
D
A
S
not
P
E
MD
AS
Give me an example where it makes a difference.
2^4 - 12 รท 3 x 2 + 11
10/2*3
These are all written ambiguously - no mathematician writes this.
You need to write it using brackets or use actual fractions in LaTeX.
So again, show me an actual UNAMBIGUOUS example where order of operations makes a difference.
Are you fucking stupid? You learn about the order of operations in grade school and thats how the problems are written for grad schoolers.
They are not ambiguous if you understand basic math.
Congrats, you're actually dumber than OP. Kill yourself, brainlet.