{"id":38780,"date":"2020-01-25T19:22:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38780"},"modified":"2020-01-25T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:22:51","slug":"math-a-detail-about-order-of-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-a-detail-about-order-of-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Math: a detail about order of operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring math, so often a detail can pose danger. The tutor relates such a case.<\/h2>\n<p>\nOccasionally, regarding order of operations, I&#8217;ve heard people say you do addition before subtraction, since of course in BEDMAS, A comes before S. It&#8217;s a logical enough conclusion, though I&#8217;d argue not the safest way to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen only addition and subtraction remain, they are done in the order they appear from left to right. Consider, for instance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">5-11+7<\/p>\n<p>\nA scientific calculator will confirm the answer is 1.\n<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring math, so often a detail can pose danger. The tutor relates such a case. Occasionally, regarding order of operations, I&#8217;ve heard people say you do addition before subtraction, since of course in BEDMAS, A comes before S. It&#8217;s a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-a-detail-about-order-of-operations\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math: a detail about order of operations<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38783,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780\/revisions\/38783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}