My name is Judy and I am a grade 6 teacher.
We have just started our lessons on the order of operations and my students have asked me why we have BEDMAS and what is the logic to it.

Is there a reason that that we do math in this particular order?

Who invented this rule or how was it decided on and when?

Thank you

Judy

Hi Judy,

I recommend the page at Ask Dr. Math as a resource on this:

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52582.html

Walter