Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally's Loud Radio

Mnemonic Device

  • Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally's Loud Radio
  • Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally:
    • 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 After School
    • Purple Elephants May Destroy Abbott School

Explanation

Used to remember the order of operations for arithmetic

  • Parentheses
  • Exponent
  • Multiply and Divide
  • Add and Subtract
  • go Left to Right