What is the answer?

Most people assume you are far older than you are, I told you.

Yes, but it is a trick. Many of us were taught that when a number is beside parentheses, it must be multiplied by the parentheses before doing anything else.

Algebra logic.

 

I understand that, I'm just telling you they've changed it.​

 

I fail to see the difference because of that last line. But trust me, order of operations is centuries old. It only gets changed when you need to add to it (like a derivative comes before parenthesis, but derivatives didn't exist until calculus)

They may be stepping away from "PEMDAS" because most people go too strictly on it. Multiplication and division are just different ways of writing the same thing. Same for addition and subtraction. So it works if you break it up as "P-E-MD-AS" and every time you are on one level of order of operations you run from left to right.

 

Jedi mind tricks, I tell you.

I will not be forgetting this trick anytime soon.

 

True, my wording wasn't the best, but this is what I was going for.​

 

Who, though?
The world's collective mathematicians certainly didnt.

but I am just the small desu

 

I can't tell you, because I don't know.

All I'm saying is that my teachers said they've (don't know who they is) changed it.

I've done order of operations the "new" way for several state tests, and they've marked them as correct.

That's all I know. >.>​

 

Kawaii!

 

The school changed how they are teaching it, I assume because people were doing all the multiplying before all the division when they are really the same thing. The actual rules did not change.

 

In all honesty that is the only real adjective to describe me.

 

Magic .

 

Oh wow. . . .

 

Sugoi must be reserved for me, then.

 

wat

They changed maths?

Is everything I learned at school in ye olde days now irrelevant? well **** my life