40+40x0+1 =

Tummy said:
You were taught this though, you might of been taught it under a different name but you were taught this.

It's like, how you do math yo!
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Nope - not. Not not never. Ever ever ever.

We will have to agree to disagree, unless you wish to pursue the issue?
 
Kenai said:
How have you ever done any maths beyond long division then?

They are the fundamental rules of how maths works, I don't understand how you could possibly have progressed through secondary school (guessing you did O Level rather than GCSE?) level maths without knowing these basic rules.
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Give me an example, in everyday life, where I would need to know the equation 40+40x0+1.
 
Quink said:
I cry about nothing - all the time :eek::(

I shan't be crying about a few exchanges of opinion on the interweb, rest assured /massive wink/
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No I just find you a little hypocritical and ignorant.

Because some people here are better at Maths they must be wild fappers who spent all their school with their head's in books. :rolleyes:

Guess what? I wasted my school years away but I wanted to better myself. ;)

People have been trying to tell you why it works with links to read, even. Yet you argued the toss about something you know nothing of.
 
Craterloads said:
Seriously, im thinking to my self what are these morons on about!

I got a B in GCSE maths, but have never come across thi8s BADAS formula thing.
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You're taking the wee, I've taught D grade students that knew this rule.


The BODMAS/BIDMAS rule isn't so much a rule but a convention called the order of operations so that everyone is working with the same logic. Basically the order of operations exists so that people don't get answers such as... not 41.


Edit: Also if anyone will dispute this and say "Oh I wasn't taught this", they are merely being ignorant and it would be best to ignore them. I figure the kind of person they were at school and are as people now. I learnt it myself. Big deal. It's just how it works.
 
Telescopi said:
Can the people who went further in maths explain, why bodmas is the rule? I was taught many rules, many formulas, but didn't really get the why.
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I think the why is simply because there has to be a standardized order of operations, or else you end up with two different people getting two completely different unrelated answers to the same question. As far as i'm aware multiplication and division have always taken place before addition and subtraction.

That's probably because multiplication is basically 'fast' addition. For example:

4+5*3

could also be written as

4+5+5+5

Which is clearly 19 and not 27 :)
 
UncleRuckus said:
No I just find you a little hypocritical and ignorant.

Because some people here are better at Maths they must be wild fappers who spent all their school with their head's in books. :rolleyes:

Guess what? I wasted my school years away but I wanted to better myself. ;)

People have been trying to tell you why it works with links to read, even. Yet you argued the toss about something you know nothing of.
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Good for you - you may have faired better if you bothered to learn our native tongue :)
 
My wife teaches P7 and she tells me that the kids learn that in P6 or something. Lol Magicboy, mobile phones were probably a feature on Tomorrows World when I was a school, never mind playing on Facebook.

Anyway I'm off to bed, part of me thinking I've learned something new and the other part wondering how much other basic stuff is out there I don't know about. :p
 
Quink said:
Give me an example, in everyday life, where I would need to know the equation 40+40x0+1.
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I never mentioned every day life, I questioned how you progressed through secondary school level maths (ie. algebra) without knowing these very basic rules which underpin the entire thing and are fundamental to understanding it and being able to do it.
 
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