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MrSmith@lemmy.world 1 month ago
To all the people yelling PEMDAS and BOMBDAS or whatever - languages other than English exist.
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
biggeoff@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Klammer, Punkt, Strich?
MrSmith@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IT’S PEMBDURRS
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
In French there’s no acronym. We just learn it. It’s not that hard.
MrSmith@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s not like “PEMDAS” is easy to remember, as “Pemdas” as word does not exist.
We didn’t have anything to remember it by either, you just learn the order of operations and that’s it.
87Six@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
[deleted]Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Math isn’t flexible like that though. You’re asking for flexibility where there is none. Sure pemdas is technically arbitrary but having a set convention for that is strictly necessary and good teaching.
zaperberry@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Not understanding the logic doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
We created math and devised a method to ensure that equations can be solved in a way that leads everybody to the same result. If you don’t use the rule, you don’t get the same answer as someone who does. In this circumstance, yes, you do teach by nailing down a strict rule as it’s foundational to the language (math) that we’ve created.
stray@pawb.social 1 month ago
But there is logic behind them.
1+2+3=6 and 2+3+1=6 also.
But 1+23 and 23+1 won’t come out the same if you do the calculations in just any order. It’s not always possible to order them left to right like in the second version, and if we use parentheses for everything we can end up with an illegible mess. I actually tried to type an example of how silly it could look and lost track of my own parentheses nesting before I got very far.
Do you have any other suggestion for how to notate an equation which would make memorization of PEMDAS unnecessary?
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
🤨
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bro doesn’t know how math works
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
0x0@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Muricans panic without acronyms, let’em be or they’ll catch fire.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Works the same in Swedish. 👌
wieson@feddit.org 1 month ago
Die Klammer sagt: „Erst komme ich!“ dann gilt die Regel „Punkt vor Strich“
enki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
KlaHoPS
madjo@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Meneer Van Dale Wacht Op Antwoord (Exponents, multiplication, division, root, addition, subtraction in Dutch).
MrSmith@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just rolls off the toungue
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Wait is Antwoord the same meaning in Afrikaans? Does the name of the band Die Antwoord literally mean The Subtraction?
madjo@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I wrote the Dutch mnemonic not the actual Dutch word for multiplication etc.
“Antwoord” is “answer” in Dutch and Afrikaans
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Ah, thank you!