Edit: Guys the point is this isn't newsworthy and that the News is posting clickbait, you don't have to solve the maths lmao

  • math_tutor_throwaway [any]
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    2 years ago

    why is there so much math content on chapo dot chat. i never expected to get mileage out of this username except in that one circumstance I made it for.

    • goatmeal [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Mainly because this is a fuckin stupid article

      To Millenials the answer is 1 and to Zs the answer is 9. Aren't numbers wild when put in confusing math problems.

      The people bitching about postmodernism should poiint to this neoliberal clickbait BS.

      I liked the revolutionary economic BS one.

      Maybe all us nerds are celebrating pi day for a week because we don't drink.

        • Yeat [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          yes because we were taught PEMDAS but 90% of us remembered it wrong, a lot think that multiply comes before division and addition before subtraction but it’s multiply OR divide (whichever comes first) and so on

            • Yeat [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              i have no idea tbh, i’m gen z so i’ve seen a lot of people my age make that mistake and remember PEMDAS incorrectly

              • mar_k [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                Oh same, I thought you were saying millennials are the ones misremembering PEMDAS because they haven't been in school in like 20 years.

            • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              I was taught whatever is in () first then multiply divide, then addition subtraction. [()] [X,/] [+,-] There was no hiarchy between multiplication and division or addition or subtraction.

              , so distribute the two 2(1+2) = (2x1) + (2x2) or 2+4=6 or solve and distribute 2x3=6 and 6/6 =1

              I've never heard of "pemdas."

          • mar_k [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            a lot think that multiply comes before division and addition ... but it’s multiply OR divide (whichever comes first)

            Wait how is it not 9 following in that case? Following what you described I don't see how you could get 1

            Starting equation: 6 ÷ 2(1+2)

            Step 1, parenthesis first: 6 ÷ 2(3)

            Step 2, division, because it comes first: 3(3)

            Step 3, multiplication: 9

            If you assume multiplication should always comes before division then you get 1: 6 ÷ 2(3) = 6 ÷ 6