PEMDAS From Scratch

Intro A few months ago I made an edutainment game for The Odin Project’s first game jam. My team and I had decided to build a game for practicing basic math. I took on the task of generating the problems as appropriate for each level of the game. It was hard! Generating random arithmetic expressions within certain difficulty constraints was not simple. For example, one difficulty constraint we had was that our audience should not have to even consider the existence of negative numbers....

September 14, 2021 · 12 min · Maxray Savage