Has anyone tried TextTransform with a Button on Android? I originally tried all sorts of things to get my Android buttons to be lower-case, and nothing worked, it was always all-caps regardless of the original case, because “Material design on Android”, 🙄 and I ended up giving up on it. Would love to try this out but I’ve recently reinstalled and haven’t finished yet, so I haven’t got anything ready to go to try it out and see if it works with Android Buttons.

Or it was some random teacher

Yeah, maybe. My Year 7 students, who have come fresh to me from Year 6, use BEDMAS, and I teach BEDMAS for consistency (I also think it’s a better acronym anyway - think of a massive 4-poster bed to ingrain the idea of BED-MAS)…

What do you mean? I replied to it…

Where you, yet again, ignored that I told you what you said is wrong, as per Maths textbooks

Go tell Berkeley I did that

What for? They don’t care if you’re Mathematically illiterate

I know. I was clowning

Ok, fair enough. Some people seriously believe completely wrong things. A smiley goes a long way to showing intent

Tell them, not me

You’re the one commenting without reading Maths textbooks

I cannot stress this enough. If you have a problem with that, contact the author or Berkeley, not me

I cannot stress this enough - look in Maths textbooks, not random University blogs 😂

Take it up with Berkeley

Says person refusing to look in Maths textbooks 😂

Here is a distributive law lesson for grade 4

That’s the Distributive Property actually. The dead giveaway is the multiply sign, as in “The Distributive Property of Multiplication over Addition”. There’s no Multiply sign in The Distributive Law, a(b+c)=(ab+ac)

Here’s another, and another.

Also The Distributive Property. “The distributive law says that multiplying a number by a group of numbers added together is the same as doing each multiplication separately” - no, the Distributive Property says that.

These were the first results

Welcome to the problem with using the internet and not looking at Maths textbooks

It being used in an algebra course doesn’t mean it’s in the domain of algebra

It being taught in Algebra most certainly does mean it’s in the domain of Algebra

Algebra is also used in calculus, but algebra isn’t the domain of calculus, correct?

It’s all Algebra. You can’t do Calculus if you haven’t learnt Algebra yet, just like you can’ do a(b+c) if you haven’t learnt Algebra yet.

It’s algebra when it’s using variables

and the rules of Algebra, like a(b+c)=(ab+ac). Arithmetic doesn’t have any rules that aren’t in Algebra, but Algebra does have rules which aren’t in Arithmetic.

and you’re solving for an equation

I can solve 1+1= without using Algebra

2(3+4) is arithmetic

Nope, it’s Algebra

2(x+4)=0 is algebra

Yep, now substitute x=3 in 2(x+4) and tell me what you get 😂

the application of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to them

Yep. Notice how Distribution was not mentioned?? 😂

and formal manipulations

Yep, such as a(b+c)=(ab+ac)

rather than specific numbers

Soooo, a+b is Algebra, but 2a+3b+4 isn’t Algebra, because it has specific numbers in it?? 😂

Note: Algebra includes the use of arithmetic

Yep, it sure does.

t being used in algebra does not mean it is part of algebra

NOT being used in Arithmetic means it’s not part of Arithmetic. 🙄 You know we’ve only had Brackets in Maths for 300 years, and that Arithmetic is much older than that, right?

Take it up with Berkeley then

What for? You’re only the second person ever to have quoted him. You’re not the first person to refuse to look in Maths textbooks though 🙄

Sorry, your realm does not extend into English

Sorry, it most definitely does when it comes to how English is used in Maths

It’s tangential to mathematics, but it isn’t mathematics

The way we say Mathematical things is 100% Maths

There’s absolutely nothing you can improve on?

I can improve some badly written textbooks. Probably every Maths teacher can.

Has a teacher ever been wrong (or just uninformed) about a topic in a subject they teach?

Yes, ones who haven’t looked in the textbook which seems to be the case with a lot of unqualified U.S. Maths teachers

Does every English teacher know the content of every book?

Probably the content of every book they teach 🙄

No one knows everything about a subject

Teachers do. It comes from teaching the same thing year after year after year

Anyway, this isn’t your subject!

Yes it is! 😂

This is English, not math

It’s Mathematical English

Do you see any formulas, proofs, or equations in these comments?

Do you see words in Maths textbooks? And the definitions of them? 🙄

What don’t you get?

Why you keep insisting that Maths textbooks are wrong

It being in an algebra textbook does not limit it to the realm of algebra

And NOT being in any arithmetic book means it’s not part of Arithmetic 🙄

Numbers are in that textbook too

Yep, both Arithmetic and Algebra, as opposed to a(b+c) which is only in Algebra books.

If I’m wrong, I’d love to see the citation

Says person who can’t cite any Arithmetic books it’s in 🙄

Anyway, unless you provide that proof at the end there

Already gave it in the previous post… which you didn’t look at 🙄

You already said that to me

And you’re still ignoring it

You’re not listening to me

Says person refusing to look in Maths textbooks 🙄

I’m a software developer

So am I

adding extra parenthesis often adds clarity

Everyone I’ve seen add Brackets to it has done so in the WRONG place and given WRONG answers. Again this is an issue of programmers not checking the rules of Maths

that do not apply to what I’m talking about

The rules of Maths always apply to all Maths

https://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/order5.pdf

I already said he was wrong about that. Quoting him saying it doesn’t change that he’s wrong about it

So if I see something like “5-(2+4)” I will just remove the subtraction operator and call it a day

Nope. Never said anything of the sort.

Smartman on the internet said so

No I didn’t, but nice try at a strawman 😂

not everyone on the internet is a native english speaker. Everyone but you knew what was meant.

There is no such thing as “implied multiplication” in any language. They are called Terms/Products in whatever language that book is using.

Do you think you’re above them?

You know we’re talking about Year 7 Maths, right? 😂

Elementary school teaches you the fundamentals to your future education

but NOT The Distributive Law, which is taught in high school, in Algebra

I didn’t say you were wrong about math

You said “I don’t think you’re right”, and followed it up with “Ill informed”, to a Maths teacher.

I said you were wrong about English that is used in relation to math

And you were wrong about that too

Clearly this isn’t a strong suit of yours

What you mean is you clearly can’t rebut any of it

However, stop acting like you know everything

I know everything about high school Maths - I teach it

you clearly don’t

There you go again calling a Maths teacher wrong about Maths 😂

You’re using some very strange logic to argue you’re right

You think Maths textbooks use very strange logic??

it doesn’t make any sense

read this then. Contains Maths textbooks

You’re very rude

What do you expect to happen when you call a Maths teacher wrong about Maths?

Ill informed

Maths teachers are ill informed about Maths?? 😂

Elementary means fundamental or basic

Which therefore contradicts your argument about it being part of Arithmetic, which is taught in elementary school, Algebra isn’t

Adults who have forgotten the rules who I work with and read/write code where it’s important

And as a consequence of that, MathGPT is the only e-calc which gives correct answers to order of operations! 😂

This is like some pure maths vs real life engineering cliché

It’s a Correct Maths vs. Programmers who have forgotten the rules cliche

You’re either being deliberately obtuse or you’re painfully naive

Neither, I’m a Maths teacher

I don’t think you’re right

You don’t think Maths textbooks are right??

The wiki page

is full of disinformation. Note that they literally never cite any Maths textbooks

as an example of “elementary arithmetic.”

And whichever Joe Blow My Next Door Neighbour wrote that is wrong

as an example in “elementary algebra.”

Algebra isn’t taught until high school

That implies that yes, this is arithmetic,

No, anything with a(b+c) is Algebra, taught in Year 7

the introduction of variables is what makes it algebra

and the rules of Algebra, which includes a(b+c)=(ab+ac). There is no such rule in Arithmetic.

It doesn’t matter what course finally teaches it to you

It does if you’re going to argue over whether it’s Arithmetic or Algebra.

not by definition part of that domain

The Distributive Law is 100% part of Algebra. It’s one of the very first things taught (right after pronumerals and substitution).

It’s been ages since I took it

I teach it. We teach it to Year 7, at the start of Algebra