Dear Aunt Math

The pemdas rule an acronym for please excuse my dear aunt sally is a set of rules that prioritize the order of calculations that is which operation to perform first.

Dear aunt math. It definitely got an exchange going. Please excuse my dear aunt sally she s leaving math for good. Better still would be to teach everyone how to write unambiguous math expressions and then all of this would go away. Think back to middle school math.

A common technique for remembering the order of operations is the abbreviation or more properly the acronym pemdas which is turned into the mnemonic phrase please excuse my dear aunt sally. 1 parentheses 2 exponents 3 multiplication 4 division 5 addition 6 subtraction. This mnemonic device was used to teach the order of operations for math questions. We don t want that to happen.

Not to be confus. Think back to middle school math. Perhaps it s time to stop excusing dear aunt sally and instead embrace her. You likely learned the phrase please excuse my dear aunt sally.

This phrase stands for and helps one remember the order of parentheses exponents multiplication and division and addition and subtraction. But i think it was the wrong discussion. Most of us who grew up in the united states remember the order of operations as please excuse my dear aunt sally or pemdas. The internet had blown up with the following.

You likely learned the phrase please excuse my dear aunt sally this mnemonic device was used to teach the order of operations for math questions. P parentheses e is exponents m and d are multiplication and division and a and s are addition and subtraction. Otherwise it is possible to get multiple or different answers.