What? A number next to parenthesis always means multiplication
No, it means distribution, a(b+c)=(ab+ac)
Are people really not taught this anymore?
They're taught distribution yes. It's only adults who've forgotten the rules of Maths who get these wrong
Google implied multiplication
There's no such thing. It's a Term/Product. Google is a prime source of Maths disinformation (yes, they have been told it's wrong, repeatedly, so it's disinformation).
Do you write 2x or do you write 2 • x?
2a=(2xa) by definition, and 5(8-5)=(5x8-5x5).
That’s implied multiplication
No, that's a Term/Product.
Implied multiplication
Terms/Products
Put a goddamn function sign for the parenthesis
Why?
Don’t assume everyone just knows what to do with the parenthesis alone
Well, everyone was taught what to do with it in high school.
Found the Canadian
Nope, it's the same in Australia and the U.K.
Brackets and Orders, not that anybody calls “(” a bracket or “^” an “order”.
It's "to the order of" actually. 2² is 2 to the order of 2
not that anybody calls “(” a bracket
Yes we do. They're ALL Brackets - square, round, squiggly...
Why do people put bot pairs of multiplication and division, and addition and subtraction on the acronym?
Because it's intended to be used as a checklist
Do you really follow that order with the associative operations?
Yep
They're all just different mnemonics for the same rules.
BODMAS (or BEDMAS), not BOMDAS. (unless they did that in some random state). I'm an Australian Maths teacher
multiplication and division are the same operation
No they're not, but they are both binary operators.
in order to stop confusing people, it should just be: BOMA.
Leaving out D and S confuses people about where to do them in the order. It's intended to be used as a checklist
Was anyone else ever taught it as BOMDAS as opposed to BODMAS?
I don't think so, and I've seen Maths textbooks from all over the world. Only the U.S. wants to reverse the order of DM from everyone else's acronym. 🙄
I’ll never understand these approaches to learning. They require remembering the phrase, and then require remembering how the phrase translates to the rules you need to remember
Yeah, exactly, but the U.S. seems to have a chip on it's shoulder about always doing everything differently to the whole rest of the world. "Maths? We're not going to use BEDMAS, and we're not going to call them Brackets, and...".
I'm in Australia, and I remember being taught it, and I teach it.
The rules are the same everywhere, only the notation varies (in Germany they use . for multiply and : for divide, and say "dot before slash", slash being - and +).