Can you name the order of operations in Algebra?

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The Order of Operations Quiz

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Created by: jskatz -
Contributed: December 24th, 2009
Published: March 1st, 2010
Category: Science
Plays: 75,145

Tags: Math Quizzes, algebra, arithmetic, order, operation

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	JWC:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 21:10 GMT	43 points
	also learned BEDMAS. I think most Canadians do.

	silverwraith720:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 21:10 GMT	11 points
	@huey782 : It's kind of like learning the musical staff, my grade/high school teachers taught us "every good boy does fine" but in college it was "even George Bush deserves friends" there are tons of things it could be.

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	tjconn728:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 21:23 GMT	31 points
	But George Bush doesn't deserve any friends, that mnemonic is just going to confuse people.

	Jwats17:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 21:33 GMT	2 points
	I included radicals in high school after exponents

	dje:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 21:49 GMT	48 points
	anyone learn subtraction in elementary school only to get to middle school and find out that everything you learned was all a lie and subtraction is actually addition of negative numbers?

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	Omni314:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 22:23 GMT	8 points
	pedmas? I was taught bodmas, then bidmas weird

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	rachael_b:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 22:41 GMT	9 points
	I definitely learned BEDMAS in English and PEDMAS in French. This was just silly!

	The:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 22:55 GMT	21 points
	uhh...moviedynamic, I literally think it couldn't be any more obvious.

	Kicking222:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 22:55 GMT	1 point
	Oh man, what a great throwback. Awesome little quiz. Took me a few seconds to get the E, but once I did, it was like a light bulb going off over my head- "A-ha! THAT'S what the last one is!"

	arm:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 22:57 GMT	19 points
	I know its said Pemdas, but you can really switch multiplication and division or addition and subtraction.

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	willwo:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 23:12 GMT	1 point
	I learned Even George Bush Drives Fast!

	Mick9:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 23:25 GMT	4 points
	@Jwats17 radicals are forms of exponents.

	xMisguidedGhosts:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 23:27 GMT	7 points
	We learn BODMAS or BIDMAS (Indices, not of) in the UK.

	Dorak:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 23:28 GMT	6 points
	BEDMAS is the way to go. Kind of threw me until I realized D and M were switched here.

	Schwagirl:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 23:55 GMT	2 points
	I learned PERMDAS. We added radicals in so I guess it was please excuse my really dear aunt sally?

	BentKangaroo:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 00:15 GMT	-1 points
	And we learned it as Pretty Please My Dear Aunt Sally, with the other "P" standing for "powers" instead of exponents.

	Lean:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 00:20 GMT	3 points
	BEDMAS ftw.

	mybeaglebelle:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 00:34 GMT	1 point
	@wk1199; No.

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	erin:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 00:41 GMT	8 points
	a radical is an exponent. it's to the 1/2 or 1/3 (etc) power.

	MightySparks:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 01:18 GMT	1 point
	We learned it as BIMDAS. The thing on the right kept distracting me because I kept wondering 'what the hell is this going to say' (lol).

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	dethwing:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 02:44 GMT	12 points
	This is wrong....multiplication and division are the same operation, and are given equal weight. For instance: "12 divided by 6 times 2" is 4; not 1. The same thing holds with addition/subtraction.

	thenasaman:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 02:55 GMT	3 points
	Grr. Kept misspelling parenthesis. It should maybe accept the symbols themselves, like +, -, x, /, (), and ^

	atoratzy:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 03:43 GMT	2 points
	thank you dethwing. multi and division are done left to right.

	awesomeguy2204:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 04:53 GMT	2 points
	Multiplication is not superior to divition, and additon is not to subtraction, there done in the order they occur

	mrdrake:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 07:55 GMT	1 point
	I was taught BEDMAS myself, always knew it like that. But ah well....still despise algebra as it is XD