2023-08-21 04:39 UTC
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This week for #MathsMonday we are going to debunk the "implicit multiplication" (IM) claims (and also look at the mnemonics). I say claims, because there is actually no such thing as IM in #Mathematics. I find invariably the people who say there is have forgotten The Distributive Law (TDL) and/or Terms, but most often both! As we have already seen, these are both rules of #Maths, taught in many #Math textbooks, so that right away debunks any claims that "there is no convention in Maths"...
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@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social 2023-08-21 04:41
2/7 and you may recall I talked about "there is no evidence" claims in my first #FactFriday post https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/110869090048130445 and here we are with a "there is no convention" claims. ;-) So what they do is treat it like a more important form of multiplication, and so put it, not at Brackets, but just ahead of Multiplication... though this can STILL lead to wrong answers, because TDL and Terms - which they've lumped together - are quite different things...