The order of operations is, of course, PEMDAS,
Parenthesis,
Exponents
Multiplication and Division
Addition and Subtraction
But before students learn what exponents are, what does “E” stand for?
I seem to remember, long ago, before learning about exponents, “E” might have stood for something else but I cannot remember.
So what you learn the order of operations in 3rd of 4th grade (or whenever you learn it now-a-days) what do they tell the students “E” is....do they say it is exponents and leave it at that without an explanation, or do they substitute something else?
2007-03-15
13:16:31
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