Jennifer M. Bay-Williams, Sherri L. Martinie, Order of Operations: The Myth and the Math, Teaching Children Mathematics, Vol. 22, No. 1 (August 2015), pp. 20-27 ...

One short math problem set the internet ablaze this weekend—and incited charged arguments on math teacher Twitter, too.

The question above has a clear and definite answer, provided we all agree to play by the same rules governing “the order of operations.” When, as in this case, we are faced with several ...

Mathematicians, physicists, and Popular Mechanics editors argue about how to solve the ambiguous math problem that has gone viral.

Teachers should steer students away from the popular "Dear Aunt Sally" (PEMDAS) order of operations acronym, says math coach David Ginsburg.

As youngsters, math students are drilled in a particular convention for the “order of operations,” which dictates the order thus: parentheses, exponents, multiplication and division (to be ...

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 ...