1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1-1+1+1+1+1+1+1x0 = ?

• Sonofanump

  Pick6;805021 wrote:Nice to see the majority of the OC does not know 7th grade math. I failed intermediate algebra in college and still know this

  
  Go figure. I passed Calc I & II, Stat I & II, but did not know this.
• ts1227

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;805178 wrote:I thought it was pretty simple, then again my dregree was a math minor.

  
  Math minors FTW (have one too, which makes me mixing up e and i on a thread earlier even less excusable)
  
  Dregrees FTW as well
• riders1

  

  Use your calculator and it comes out to 0 ?
• ts1227

  

  riders1;805194 wrote:Use your calculator and it comes out to 0 ?

  
  Most (non graphing) calculators default to left-to-right. They don't do order of operations on their own.
  
  My TI-83 comes up with 14. Get a better calculator.
• karen lotz

  

  Why the fuck do you have to use a calculator to add/subtract 1 and multiply by 0?
• O-Trap

  

  karen lotz;805200 wrote:Why the fuck do you have to use a calculator to add/subtract 1 and multiply by 0?

  
  LOL!
• O-Trap

  

  Basic calculators are incapable of doing order of operations, because they process each function of the equation instantly. If you were to use a calculator that is capable of actually looking at the equation as a whole before calculating it (the infamous TI-83s many of us had in college), you'll get the right answer.
• Terry_Tate

  

  karen lotz;805200 wrote:Why the **** do you have to use a calculator to add/subtract 1 and multiply by 0?

  
  Maybe cause they ran out of fingers to use and didn't want to take off their socks to count more than 10?
• Ow! My Balls!

  

  Pick6;805021 wrote:Nice to see the majority of the OC does not know 7th grade math.

  I actually teach this in 6th grade math, and like many of them I didn't take my time to process what I was looking at and simply gave what appeared to be the easy answer.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Ow! My Balls!;805208 wrote:I actually teach this in 6th grade math, and like many of them I didn't take my time to process what I was looking at and simply gave what appeared to be the easy answer.

  
  Lol awesome username
• hasbeen

  

  Ow! My Balls!;805208 wrote:I actually teach this in 6th grade math, and like many of them I didn't take my time to process what I was looking at and simply gave what appeared to be the easy answer.

  
  Are you here to hook up with students?
• Terry_Tate

  

  pnhasbeen;805262 wrote:Are you here to hook up with students?

  
  Lol'd, word is getting out about the OC.
• coyotes22

  

  Math is stupid
• O-Trap

  

  pnhasbeen;805262 wrote:Are you here to hook up with students?

  
  Hell yes!
• coyotes22

  

  O-Trap;805316 wrote:Hell yes!

  
  IP's match
• thePITman

  

  Wow! This is a hilarious thread! The one guy who says "there are two answers, either left-to-right, or the REAL answer" made me laugh out loud!
• Early Cuyler

  

  If you didn't realize it was 14 even without using a calculator, you are fuckin' retarded.
• Early Cuyler

  

  thePITman;805359 wrote:Wow! This is a hilarious thread! The one guy who says "there are two answers, either left-to-right, or the REAL answer" made me laugh out loud!

  
  Is it safe to say that SOS was the benefactor of an IEP when he was in school?
• WebFire

  Early Cuyler;805419 wrote:If you didn't realize it was 14 even without using a calculator, you are fuckin' retarded.

  
  Way to come in at the end and pretend you knew.
• Fly4Fun

  

  I thought order of operations got introduced in elementary school once you knew how to multiply and divide...?
  
  When do American schools learn multiplication typically?? I learned multiplication, division and order of operation in 2nd grade when I lived in Germany... and I forget if I relearned it here after that.
  
  Anyways, as people have said. There is only 1 correct answer to this problem. Although the minus sign thrown in all the plus signs is more of a trick and about observation not actual mathematical knowledge.
• thePITman

  

  Fly4Fun, I was also 2nd and/or 3rd grade.
• Early Cuyler

  

  WebFire;805427 wrote:Way to come in at the end and pretend you knew.

  
  Pardon me for having a life and not being able to glare at the OC all day. Additionally, it's not my fault you can't do simple math, obviously your parents should have gotten you a math IEP.
• O-Trap

  

  Fly4Fun;805797 wrote: Although the minus sign thrown in all the plus signs is more of a trick and about observation not actual mathematical knowledge.

  
  Yeah, I don't fault someone's math skills for putting 16. I fault their OBSERVATIONAL skills, but not their math skills.
  
  I remember playing "Around-the-World" with multiplication and division in fourth grade. However, I don't believe we discussed exponents and square roots until maybe 5th grade, which is my guess for order of operations (private school), but then when I transferred to a public school, we learned it again in 7th grade.
  
  In any case, it's not part of higher math or anything.
• 1_beast

  

  Amish schools dont worry about multiplication....just multiply
• Belly35

  

  WoW! no grammar / spelling required