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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean ... yea. The exact problem is math is not taught correctly. Order of operations make total logical sense for what the operations are doing.

The problem only arises when people don't come to all of the appropriate conclusions on their own.

[โ€“] SmartmanApps -1 points 7 months ago

The exact problem is math is not taught correctly

Every single Maths textbook I've seen teaches it correctly. The issue is people not remembering what they were taught (and then programming a calculator without checking it first). Calculators