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yeah it's where i keep all of my cadavers.....

underthedeep wrote:yeah it's where i keep all of my cadavers.....

Those were yours?

crap.

Don't worry kid, I just ate all the evidence.

Except for that one video I made...

Dammit Glabbit! They didn't need to know about the video!

I may have published it...

Oh god zoidberg why?

As of this moment, over 3,000 likes. Not even 400 shares.

Humanity... goddammit.

pawns.

i'm not shocked at all, most people learned PEMDAS with parentheses.... but yeah i get it.

Even though I'm unsure what 'PEMDAS' are, aren't you now implying that it's not those 3000+ people that are stupid, but their education that was incomplete or simply a complete failure?

In my opinion, that's worse than the alternative.

PEMDAS is a system generally taught in the US for memorization of order of operations. It's also known as "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (that's how I learned it)." It stands for Parenthesis Exponents Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction. I'm not sure why it's a bad thing; it's the method I learned and I'm pretty solid on order of operations...

a lot of teachers took shortcuts in elementary school when those basic rules were being taught, and in junior high. it may be sad but, it IS true. i fucking hate math, but i understand it because i like to stay sharp. some of the people in my classes in college can hardly write essays without fragments and run-ons.

even why they are trying their hardest, now THAT is sad.

anyways this is "PEMDAS", it's your basic rule of "orders of operation" which makes problems like this easy. good teachers would show this to kids at a young age with the acronym "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally", thanks to aunt sally i will never forget.

http://www.purplemath.com/modules/orderops.htm

-note-

i posted this at practically the same time as you jack so don't think i'm ripping you off...... jinx you owe me a beer.

I never learned about PEMDAS, but I've never done the order wrong, either.
(Well except those times when I brainfarted on the exams... but hey, I learnt from those mistakes)

I suppose Dear Aunt Sally is another person I never met.


Regardless, education needs higher standards - and I don't mean the test results, I mean the actual education.

I was taught with BIDMAS Brackets, Indeces, Decimals, Multiplication, Addition Subtraction... Pretty much the same things.