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tbh that's a pretty lame way of teaching things . Specially if you cant even agree on a single one . Do you really need to know a word so you can remember in which order to do things? i mean, it's not that hard

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
"PEDMAS" in the UK though?

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it is
parentheses exp div mult add sub

PEMDAS.

Parenthesis, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.

Or you could just learn it and not need an acronym.

BODMAS is what we were taught as kids.
Brackets
Order
Division
Multiplication
Addition
Subtraction

If only people would google...
Who cares about an acronym. Just remember the damn thing. After some time you'll realise that you don't need the damn thing anyway. Its the meaning of the thing that matters.
And oh, want to see the power of google? Check this out and there are at least another 22499 others like that..

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Originally posted by Jimbodude

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Originally posted by Matty
BEDMAS
Brackets Exponents Division Muliplication Addition Subtraction.

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Isn't it :
Bidmas
Brackets Indices Division Muliplication Addition Subtraction
?

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Its right.

BODMAS is Brackets, Order, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.

BODMAS is taught until exponents is taught, and which the acronym turns into BEDMAS.

This is the English Canadian way (Ontario way at least).

We're taught Brackets Others, so BODMAS. Personally I think this works, because I can't think of anything else that doesn't take priority over D/M, and it covers all of Exponents (which are the same as indices) but also surds (which are 1/indices, ie. the Nth root).

But meh, I haven't used that in years, it's all second nature to me now. You'll make lots of use of it if you go on to do Maths / Physics with all the rearranging algebra.

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
But meh, I haven't used that in years,

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I don't use that either. Its automatic by the time you do it for 5 years...

BTW...Kids at my school are stupid (except for me and a few)

We are still learning how to multiply and divide fractions

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Originally posted by Naga
We are still learning how to multiply and divide fractions

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WTF is a fraction? jk

I passed GCSE Maths with a B and I don't know how the hell pythagoras works. Maths is over rated anyways

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
I passed GCSE Maths with a B and I don't know how the hell pythagoras works. Maths is over rated anyways

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on a right angled triangle, the square of the two shorter sides equals the square of the long side.

a2+b2=c2

Our teacher briefly talked about it last year, but I still know it.