Everyone agreed on the first step: Solve inside the parentheses, for 2+2=4. But after that, people split down two paths. Some multiplied first, while others divided, leading to different answers—1 and ...

WESTON — The "Survivor Math Challenge" on Sept. 26 was an outdoor event in which teams of students competed with one another to solve order-of-operations math problems before completing a variety of ...

The order of operations is a collection of rules that gives the correct sequence of steps for doing a calculation. Watch the video to hear Berry discuss how remembering the correct order of operations ...

Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally. Most of us learned that mnemonic device at some point in our mathematical education. Calculations must be done in an appropriate succession to reflect distributive ...

https://doi.org/10.5951/teacchilmath.22.1.0020 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5951/teacchilmath.22.1.0020 Copy URL Cajori, Florian. 1928, 1929. History of ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...