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nogoodforyou · 09-23-2011, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising

"The order of operations is crucial to many of the numbers you'll calculate in your Arithmancy studies..." Hadley began, pausing for a bit. "Which is why, I want to make sure you remember them. Using a mnemonic. As August here mentioned, the order of operations can be summed up using the mnemonic, PEMDAS. Which stands for, Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication & Division, Addition & Subtraction. The classic muggle phrase for this, which some of you might be familiar with is 'Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally.'" Hadley frowned slightly.

"I don't know about you, but I don't have an Aunt Sally. So what I want you to do is create your own phrase. Wizardfy it. Make it personal to you. Something that you can remember when we get to calculating numbers."

Oh, no.

It was like professor Hadley was talking in... some creepy, unknown language.

Mnemonics? Eeeeep.

Hearing some other PEMDAS's, Nora raised her hand to suggest hers. "Pink entertaining muggle devices are..." uhm... "sold?" She lowered her hand quickly, feeling the blood rush through her cheeks.

She was not good at this.

09-23-2011, 11:30 AM	#84 (permalink)
nogoodforyou Nogtail Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Why don't you guess? Posts: 4,889 Hogwarts RPG Name: Nora Penelope Reed Graduated	I'm just one of those pretty little liars... \| \| I'm held down in this starless city... Quote: Originally Posted by PhoenixRising "The order of operations is crucial to many of the numbers you'll calculate in your Arithmancy studies..." Hadley began, pausing for a bit. "Which is why, I want to make sure you remember them. Using a mnemonic. As August here mentioned, the order of operations can be summed up using the mnemonic, PEMDAS. Which stands for, Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication & Division, Addition & Subtraction. The classic muggle phrase for this, which some of you might be familiar with is 'Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally.'" Hadley frowned slightly. "I don't know about you, but I don't have an Aunt Sally. So what I want you to do is create your own phrase. Wizardfy it. Make it personal to you. Something that you can remember when we get to calculating numbers." Oh, no. It was like professor Hadley was talking in... some creepy, unknown language. Mnemonics? Eeeeep. Hearing some other PEMDAS's, Nora raised her hand to suggest hers. "Pink entertaining muggle devices are..." uhm... "sold?" She lowered her hand quickly, feeling the blood rush through her cheeks. She was not good at this. __________________