The seemingly simple problem is designed to trip up the solver over order of operations ... problem as an example: Students have four number fours, and can use whatever operations necessary ...

You don’t have to be a math whiz to know that 4 - 2 + 1 ... fame—the acronym intended to help students remember the order of operations. The problem with PEMDAS is that it excludes the ...

WESTON — The "Survivor Math Challenge" on Sept. 26 was an outdoor event in which teams of students competed with one another to solve order-of-operations math problems before completing a ...

Viral math equations have been ... historic interpretations of the order of operations, known as PEMDAS: People who got the number 1 as the answer to this problem were using an outdated version ...

The debate around the problem hinges on the order of operations people are supposed to use to solve it. Contemporary equation solving directs people to approach the problem following PEMDAS ...

Viral math problems have been known ... Those who got the number 1 as the solution to this problem were using the older version of the order of operations in which you multiply 2(4) first and ...

Every few months, a math problem goes viral on social media. Disappointingly often, it lacks mathematical meat. It seems over half of them boil down to the order of operations. Some tweet will get ...

Two viable answers to one math problem? Well, if there's one thing ... some of which are programmed to respect a particular order of operations, was much discussed. Others, hedging a bit, suggest ...

But while many users on X, formerly Twitter, quickly chimed in with answers, only a small number got it right - because only they remembered to apply the correct order of operations. To solve ...