Once Again Social Media Exposes Failed American Education

[IVS]

Spoiler: thats easy

DEEZ NUTZ!

 

[Stick Up Kid]

My answer wasnt even a number

 

[Seoul Gleou]

I find myself very, very thankful for teachers who never budged on forcing students to show their work.

ChatGPT will show the work for students now

 

[Amo Husserl]

This would make the problem easier: (10 - 2^2) + 6 is 6 + (10 - 2^2) = 12

This is an addition problem.
Teaching students what kind of problem it is before solving it with PEMDAS would be better.
There aren't parenthesis, you gotta put them in the right place to make the problem an addition problem.
Choose addition first.

This is a subtraction problem:
(10 - 2^2) - 6 = (10 - 4) - 6 = 6 - 6 = 0

6 - (10 - 2^2) = 6 - (10 - 4) = 6 - 6 = 0

 

[Tair]

I always combine like terms not in parentheses or exponents.

 

[Deltron]

My teacher friend says it's 12

 

[weather so breezy]

say brehs , we all are supposedly 6 fig 6 certs


top 1% of the 1%

pls don't make a plat thread of this 5th grade math shyt

 

[norfwestdc]

The answer is 12 you do it from left to right

 

[null]

i've been to both an american and a non-american university

 

[Gloxina]

PEMDAS - Addition/Subtraction - perform these operations as they appear left to right, so…

10-4+6

6+6 = 12

That’s what’s tripping folks up.

 

[ThatTruth777]

I hate these fukking things

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Everyone in the comments is answering 12

The answer is definitely 12, breh.

Addition/subtraction are effectively considered the same operation (subtraction is just the addition of a negative number), as are multiplication and division (division is multiplication by the reciprocal). For order of operations, you don't prioritize one over the other.

So the best way to understand it is:

1. Parentheses
2. Exponents
3. Multiplication and division, in the order of whichever comes first starting from the left
4. Addition and subtraction, in the order of whichever comes first starting from the left