The Drama of Arithmetic Operations

Math is actually rigged because addition and multiplication are the clear favorites. Think about it.

With adding and multiplying, you can swap numbers around or group them however you

want and get the same answer. They are totally chill. But subtraction

and division are the toxic drama queens of arithmetic. You try to switch their order or group

them differently, and the whole equation falls apart. They do not play nice.

The only real magic trick here is the distributive property, which is basically the only time multiplication

agrees to share the spotlight with addition.