• 8/2(4) - Parentheses

    8/8 - Multiplication

    Correct steps, but wrong names. Where you said “multiplication” is actually still parentheses - that first step isn’t finished until you have removed them (which isn’t until after you have distributed and simplified, which you did do correctly).

    Modern phone apps seem to be notorious for getting order of operations wrong

    Yes, I know, and as a Maths teacher I am well and truly sick of hearing “but Google says…”, and so I wrote this thread to try and get developers to fix their damn calculators.