Mnemonics for operations, operators

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Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

  Mnemonic Device: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally Peanuts Ended My Doughnut Addiction Saturday People Everywhere Must Devour Additional Seafood Paul’s Energetic Monkey Danced And Sang Please Eat McDonald’s
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Does McDonald’s Sell CheeseBurgers and Shakes? (DMSCBS)

  Mnemonic Device: Does McDonald’s Sell CheeseBurgers and Shakes? Explanation: to learn the order of the algorithm of a long division problem. DMSCBS stands for Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Check that the
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Everybody’s Daddy, Mother, Sister, Brother, Reunion, Celebration

  Mnemonic Device: Everybody’s Daddy, Mother, Sister, Brother, Reunion, Celebration Explanation: to remember the steps for long division. Estimate, Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring down, Redo (all steps), Check (by multiplying
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No Dirty Dogs! Numerator Divided (by) Denominator

Mnemonic Device: No Dirty Dogs! Explanation: To remember which number is the Numerator or the Denominator when working with fractions. Numerator Divided (by) Denominator when reading or converting fractions. Additional Notes: 3/53
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BODMAS*

  Mnemonic Device: BODMAS* Brackets, Order, Division and Multiplication, Addition and Substraction Variation: BIDMAS* Brackets, Indices, Division and Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction Explanation: to remember the Order of Operations Additional Information: Orders,
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Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally’s Loud Radio

  Mnemonic Device: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally’s Loud Radio Explanation: Used to remember the order of operations for arithmetic Parentheses Exponent Multiply and Divide Add and Subtract go
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