Last week a seemingly simple math problem caused deep division among DailyMail.com readers, igniting an argument so furious that it resembled an angry political debate. A British mathematician and TV ...
Even Queer Eye’s resident home renovator (and probably the guy who knows the most about math) Bobby Berk got into the debate. It’s also probably a regional thing. Those who followed a BEDMAS (often ...
You don’t have to be a math whiz to know that 4 - 2 + 1 equals 3. Yet I was working with several students recently who said it equals 1. And it wasn’t their fault. Nor was it their teacher’s fault.