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Has PEMDAS Really Taken Over From BODMAS?


"In those days", one of the rules of Algebra in solving of equations was to use the mnemonics BODMAS - as the order of operations to follow....

B - for Brackets
O - for Of
D - for Division
M - for Multiplication
A - for Addition
S - for Subtraction

Yesterday while discussing this "almighty" order of solving equations with a young undergraduate, he politely informed me that my BODMAS of yesteryears is no more! That rather it is now PEMDAS that is now being taught in schools and colleges.....

P - for Parentheses
E - for Exponent
M - for Multiplication
D - for Division
A - for Addition
S - for Subtraction

While an ancient like me can allow the fresh nomenclatures for "Brackets" and "Of" of yesteryears, when did "Division" lose its position for "Multiplication"? He could not answer me!

Finally, is it now true that "Multiplication" has taken precedence over "Division" against what the Entebbe Workshop that became "Modern Mathematics" of the 1960s taught to people of my generation?

yes, its true

Hmmm. Hearing dis 4 d 1st time. Nice though!

In programming I was taught PEMDAS while in maths I know of it as BODMAS.

Computer uses PEMDAS for it calculations.

maths just ain't my thing..even tho being in science

Mathematics =Bodmas
Further mathematics =pemdas

The rule still remains BODMAS. Parentheses and brackets are used interchangeably.
Of, Division and Multiplication are both Commutative and Associative. Same can be said for Exponent, Division and Multiplication

Impossicant.

What is BODMAS and PEDMAS?

yes,BODMAS is outdated.

(Note: Speakers of British English often instead use "BODMAS",
which stands for "Brackets, Orders, Division and Multiplication,
and Addition and Subtraction". Since "brackets" are the same as
parentheses and "orders" are the same as exponents, the two
acronyms mean the same thing.)
www.purplemath.com/modules/orderops.htm

Hmmmm......still clinging to my bodmas though

buksaylor001 just updated his post with good explanation.

PEMDAS adds the exponent/index operation to BODMAS, while BODMAS has Of which is same as Multiplication.

P - Parenthesis and B - Bracket are the same.
MD or DM, the same level of operation.

Both are still almost the same and correct. You can use any of them that appeals to you and suitable for what you are doing.

BODMAS for beginner... PEMDAS for advance learner

an average mathematician is an average mad man ...........always solving for wat is nt lost

Mathematics is my favorite

If u look at it carefully, it s basically same.
In simple maths, without parenthesis and exponentials, u can either divide first or multiply first. U ll get same answers as long as you solve them before addition and subtraction.

op follow wetin u know ooo. Ever since u been using bodmas, where u faulted by your teachers or lecturers?

PEDMAS i know is used for teaching programming in school cuz thats the way computer solves it own calculations


but didn't that it has replaced BODMAS in the modern day Mathematics


well what a heck, computer is modern

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Really? Seeing this for the first time.

kindly give us live examples of solved problems with PEMDAS and BODMAS

whether BODMAS or PEMDAS, so long as you get the equation....

who PEMDAS epp?

[color=#DC143C]They're the same. Division and Multiplication works interchangeably. Addition and Subtraction works interchangeably but not with Multiplication and Division involved in the equation. [/color]

I hate maths, and all what u guys are saying sounds so foreign to me..

I only know bodmas!!!!!!!, so Which one is pedmas again o

Doesnt matter if you divide first or multiply first.

Parenthesis is the same as Bracket, while the term "of" referred to exponent.

adioolayi:
kindly give us live examples of solved problems with PEMDAS and BODMAS

6-1x0+2÷2 = 7, using PEMDAS

6-1x0+2÷2 = 5, using BODMAS

I don't think PEMDAS and BODMAS are basically the same.

*Keke stop, stop me joor... I no dey go Brexit Avenue again* *PEDMAS Close ó wá*

Time for refresher course in Mathematics (best subject ever)