40+40x0+1 =

Raymond Lin · 10 Nov 2011 at 22:55

Quink said:
FWIW I got a B in my 1990 GCSE maths exam

Could have got an A if you knew this!

haaammit · 10 Nov 2011 at 22:55

Raymond Lin said:
My point is that the original question is as easy as 1 + 1.

Simple stuff, which you cannot grasp.

40+40=80 - yes?

80x0 = 0 - yes?

0+1 = 1 - yes?

Ta

Raymond Lin · 10 Nov 2011 at 22:56

Quink said:
40+40=80 - yes?

80x0 = 0 - yes?

0+1 = 1 - yes?

Ta

This is like reading a map.

You reached a destination. The WRONG destination. You took a wrong turn.

Get it?

If this was a math test question, you get 0.

No marks for the wrong answer.

No marks for the wrong working through.

Tachyon · 10 Nov 2011 at 22:57

Raymond Lin said:
I got taught this in PRIMARY school in the other side of the world in Hong Kong in another language.

Either Quink missed that class or he failed maths.

Either way, Quink is wrong.

This is like 1 + 1 = 2.

How on earth this get to 3 pages is beyond me. I thought maths 20 years ago was harder? lol Clearly not!

Raymond, with all due respect I wasn't taught this in school either and I grew up in the UK. I hadn't heard of it up until an hour or so ago when I read this thread. It's not that some of us don't grasp it, I was never taught it.

CrispyOtter · 10 Nov 2011 at 22:58

40+40x0+1=?
No Brackets move on
No power Of move on
No Devision move on
Multiplication 40x0=0
Addition 40+0+1=41

Raymond Lin · 10 Nov 2011 at 22:59

Tachyon said:
Raymond, with all due respect I wasn't taught this in school either and I grew up in the UK. I hadn't heard of it up until an hour or so ago when I read this thread. It's not that some of us don't grasp it, I was never taught it.

Well, it bloody should be and I bet it was. It is as fundamental as anything, it is the beginning of algebra!

FoxEye · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:00

Tachyon said:
Raymond, with all due respect I wasn't taught this in school either and I grew up in the UK. I hadn't heard of it up until an hour or so ago when I read this thread. It's not that some of us don't grasp it, I was never taught it.

I didn't learn it in school either. I learned it from programming text books. Think I was learning C64 BASIC

haaammit · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:01

Raymond Lin said:
This is like reading a map.

You reached a destination. The WRONG destination. You took a wrong turn.

Get it?

If this was a math test question, you get 0.

No marks for the wrong answer.

No marks for the wrong working through.

I really hope that you don't use a map for navigating if that is what you think reading a map is like

6thElement · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:01

Did anyone mention BODMAS yet?

Stretching back to secondary school, process the string in the following order.

Brackets
O....hmmm can't remember
Division
Multiplication
Addition
Subtraction

edit: O= Orders, powers of, or roots.

haaammit · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:01

Raymond Lin said:
Well, it bloody should be and I bet it was. It is as fundamental as anything, it is the beginning of algebra!

Well it wasn't - get over it.

haaammit · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:03

FoxEye said:
I didn't learn it in school either. I learned it from programming text books. Think I was learning C64 BASIC

Enjoy doing that? Was it boring? I was out scoring ****y

Raymond Lin · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:03

Quink said:
I really hope that you don't use a map for navigating if that is what you think reading a map is like

It is a metaphor !

The destination should be London, except you ended up in Scunthorpe.

Raymond Lin · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:05

Quink said:
Well it wasn't - get over it.

Oh, I have, I got over this when I was like 8 years old.

davethe11 · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:05

so what is it?

Tachyon · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:05

Raymond Lin said:
Well, it bloody should be and I bet it was. It is as fundamental as anything, it is the beginning of algebra!

Of course, but that doesn't change the fact that I still didn't get taught it in school. Reading through the thread there are a few others who weren't taught it either. People are being patronising and others have called people thick but they don't realise not everyone has heard of it.

haaammit · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:05

Raymond Lin said:
It is a metaphor !

The destination should be London, except you ended up in Scunthorpe.

Same country isn't it? I do hope you didn't choose Scunthorpe for any comedy reasons?

FoxEye · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:05

Quink said:
Enjoy doing that? Was it boring? I was out scoring ****y

Well I was about 8 years old, maybe less. In view of that, I don't think I was doing what you were doing, no.

[FnG]magnolia · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:06

haaammit · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:06

Raymond Lin said:
Oh, I have, I got over this when I was like 8 years old.

How old are you?

Raymond Lin · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:07

Tachyon said:
Of course, but that doesn't change the fact that I still didn't get taught it in school. Reading through the thread there are a few others who weren't taught it either. People are being patronising and others have called people thick but they don't realise not everyone has heard of it.

But now that you have, then why do people still fight it?

i.e. Quink over there.

Why? :confused: