My Single Mom Life

Hmmm, you know I think they are teaching the same thing here. Ass backwards.

no that is correct, you resolve the division and the multiplication before summing the two so it is like this
(9 / 9) + (3 * 62)
1 + 186
187

I understand now but that is really fucked up. We NEVER did that in school. Tell me when you would actually use that type of math?

It just seems so wrong to me but Ozone explained it so I guess it's right but I never learned math that way. Gah.

I learned it Ozone's way, but we would have had it in parentheses to separate the operations. But I did get the correct answer when I looked at it the first time - they just grouped the parenthetical operations by removing the spaces instead of bracketing them. But the mathematical logic is sound.

We always learned left to right unless noted in parenthesis. I think that's what threw me off. There was no indication of higher priority.

Shit, I have a migraine now. Good God. (I failed algebra twice in high school, but I do well in English. Heh.)

I always sucked at math the old fashioned way. I wouldn't begin to comprehend this 'new math'.

It's called the Order of Operations and I learned it in high school 18 years ago. In short, it's called PEMDAS, which stands for Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction and it's the order in which you perform mathematical operations. Many teachers tell their students that if they can remember the phrase "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" that they'll never forget the order. It must have worked because I still remember it 18 years later...when I have trouble remembering my own name some days lol.

but it really burns that they left out the brackets, man.

Order of operation rules. No, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but you should do multiplication and division first, going left to right, then do the addition. There's some silly acronymn for the order of operations - something like Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, parentheses, addition, subraction).

Oh man, this is scary... I just applied what I learned in algebra. LMAO!!!

Hi ya, Kat. Not being a math wiz (as well as not having school-age kids anymore), I'm breathing a huge sigh of relief....I did buy a very handy book a long time ago, entitled "The Only Math You'll Ever Need" and it was a lifesaver.

Besides, forget math. I have a tough enough time dealing with English.

Hi Kat, yeah its f*cked up and so forth. My first year at college we had to learn that. They said we should of learned it in earlier classes in Junior High and crap. Must be a new thing I think cause I never had it either.

I know that it is algebra but it is really fucked up that they didn't include any brackets of any kind. Just a straightforwardpoblem. How am I supposed to help him with his homework if they aren't telling me what the fuck it is? Just say hey, it's algebra and I could go okey dokey, brackets first.

I'm glad I'm not in school anymore. I would so fail this shit that they have to do today.

Yeah but you are only applying it because some 11 year old had a math problem. When again have you ever really used that? Hrmm? I hate algebra. It's so not useful unless you're helping a kid do his homework about algebra.

It burns me too. I would have known what I was looking at if they had done that. How the hell am I supposed to help him if I don't know what I'm looking at? No wonder he has an F. I suck.

I came up with the answer the way you did...the simple way! Man if I had to learn math like that I so would've failed!

Yeah - Order of Operations. The started giving it to my 11yo last year. It isn't too bad when you understand that they are teaching you that mulitplication/division has priority over addition/subtraction.
In programming, they call it precidence - and they have tables for which operations have more priority, and whether they go left to right or right to left. It is enough to drive a coder nuts! So I usually just put in the parens to be sure things calculate in the order I want.
I reinforced what they were trying to teach my son about the priority of multipy/divide. I told him to think about the parenthesis being there. Or even write them in himself, so he remembers what has priority and needs to be done first. I told them they were trying to trick him, leaving out the parensthesis, and he should just figure where they go before he did the math.

OMG, I got a brain cramp just looking at that math problem. math totally sucked for me in middle and high school, even now when my 11 year old asks me to help her with homework, I am sitting there sweating bullets, sooo not good since she is just in the 5th grade, what am I gonna do when she gets to highschool?! lol

I don't know...lo I am the same wya. I don't know this new math at all.

who is the foul mouth? "fucked up" your kids will be as stupid and foul as you

Hahahahaha! I love anonymous comments!
See, the beauty of anonymous comments is that YOU are too chicken to sign your name and therefore invalidating any words that may come out of your mouth.
As it stands, your comment didn't make grammatical sense.
And as for foul, here's a lesson for you:
fuck up

1. To make a mistake; bungle something.
2. To act carelessly, foolishly, or incorrectly.
3. To cause to be intoxicated.
Word History: The obscenity fuck is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, “Flen flyys,” from the first words of its opening line, “Flen, flyys, and freris,” that is, “fleas, flies, and friars.” The line that contains fuck reads “Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk.” The Latin words “Non sunt in coeli, quia,” mean “they [the friars] are not in heaven, since.” The code “gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk” is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields “fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli.” The whole thus reads in translation: “They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge].”

As you can clearly see, the word has a place in the english language and has been around for centuries. It is in every dictionary and even in some of the best classical literature known to mankind.
If you find the word offensive, that is because you have not researched the word and it seems that you would rather tell people that they are wrong so you can feel, cowardly anonymous, somehow superior.
By you yourself using the word back at me, you too are guilty of being as foul mouthed as you would preach to me.
Thank you for stopping by and have a nice night.

well, fuck me! i never knew that!
:)

The things you can learn if you get curious enough to look them up.