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145419, 100% honest -- If you can read an equation, you don't need PEMDAS. Posted by Orbit_Established, Mon Apr-11-11 02:01 AM
> >Obviously the real answer is that you're trolling. That's >what you're always doing. But I think you're mixing in a bit >of the other possibility, too, with statements like this:
PEMDAS is teaching tool used to teach kids about the relationship between numbers.
We use it to prepare kids to tackle fractions.
This is why after fractions, we almost never, ever, ever use the division sign again, because we know, after learning fractions, what a division sign is communicating.
PEMDAS is trying to give kids a shortcut. Its a cute shortcut, and it works, but it doesn't teach kids about the relations between numbers.
I don't need PEMDAS to get this right, because I understand the relationship between numbers.
You're wrong and your feelings are hurt, so you're trying to complicate a very simple matter.
You are wrong. Deal with it.
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