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39 Times People Clearly Didn’t Do The Math And Others Had To Share It On This Page
We might act like Muppets sometimes, but we’re nowhere near as good at counting as Count von Count. One! Two! Three! Hahaha. And that’s more or less where our worldly wisdom with numbers ends.
(Un)fortunately, we’re not the only ones whose brains sometimes derp out and throw their math skills out of whack! And that’s what the ‘They didn’t do the math’ subreddit is all about. It documents all of the biggest math fails on the net and all of the times people messed up when doing school-level counting. (Just remember not to mix this community up with its counterpart, the ‘They did the math’ subreddit.)
Check out some of the funniest ‘They didn’t do the math posts’ and upvote your fave pics by giving them a big old upvote. Do you have any embarrassing math fails to share with all the other Pandas? Drop us a comment below. Who said that math can’t be fun?!
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Small Brain Moment
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A Penny A Day For A Year Will Get You Nowhere
Skyler Harris 5 years ago
I know how the guy/girl thought it was 9,125 dollars with the quarter. Because he probably did 25x365 and not 0.25x365
The subreddit has over 24.3k members and has been active for 6 and a half years at the time of writing. And the community is all about making your inner numbers’ wiz groan and cringe. There’s nothing like feeling like a genius at math when you compare yourself to the worst of the worst, is there?
But suppose that being better than the worst isn’t enough for you. You like a challenge. You enjoy improving yourself. Pushing past your limits. You’re a Panda, after all! Luckily, there are countless (pun not intended) free and paid resources online to help you sharpen your skills with numbers. From big names like Khan Academy to small scale websites and projects that you’ll find hiding in the cracks of the internet, right in-between posts about cats.
#4
Not Sure That’s How That Works
#6
Tipping Ain’t A City In China
While some peeps have an easier time learning math, I sincerely believe that everyone can reach the genius tier if they put in enough time, effort, and focus. I for one was really awesome at math when I started school (multiplying stuff was my bread and butter). However, I started struggling when they started throwing in letters and weird concepts into my calculations. I’m sure that more than one of you has been there, dear Readers.
But one thing that I learned was how much carving out an hour or two for practicing basic math problems helped me out. That and knowing some amazing math wizards who explain to you the illogical logic behind numbers. TL;DR—practice makes perfect and soon enough you’ll be a Muppet like Count von Count.
#7
Centaur Proportions.
#9
Ah Yes, Calculation
Csaba Hegedűs 5 years ago
Well, if he sleeps just three hours less, then it means he can drive for 27 hours per day...
#11
What A Genius
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
I'm sure he is not trolling, so it means that the second solution is correct
#15
Seems About Right
#16
Makes Sense
#17
Yay! We All Win
#18
Fox Is Making Up Numbers
#19
How Many Trips Back To The Store?
#20
Ah Yes, The 500 People Population Of The U. S.
#21
Once A Day For Whole Year
#23
20
#24
For The 0.01th Time?
#25
Hmm...
#26
How Do I Take Advantage Of This Special?
#27
When Did Free Become So Expensive?
#28
Please Explain... Yes...
#29
Only 4% Of The People Wash Their Hands?
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
I still hope the numbers by CDC are wrong. Such a low percentage sounds outright disgusting.
#30
Communicative Property Is Anger
#31
Tiktokers Can’t Be This Dumb
#32
Valentine's Day Instant Baby Or That Elusive 4th Trimester Pregnancy
#33
Abc Did Not Do The Math
Alex Fierro 5 years ago (edited)
I'm guessing you could pick more than one option in the survey? It would make sense if the graph wasn't a pie chart
#34
Social Distancing
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 5 years ago
IT WORKS!, but only if you can get people to stand in a tetrahedron.
#35
Wow! What A Great Deal!.....wait....
#36
Pemdas
#37
What A Deal!
#38
Shouldn't A Vp At A Mortgage Company Understand How Compounding Interest Works?
#39
Oof
Alex Fierro 5 years ago
can someone,,, explain what is going on here??? like, I get it, but I also don't - obviously it's wrong but where is the error?
#40
Off By 100x. Still Way Too High But Holy Crap How Do You Mess This Up?
#41
One In Four = Most??
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
This happens often, when journalists uses phrases without thinking of the meaning and editors are incompetent. Believe me, I know what I'm saying, I'm in the branch
#42
Yummy Pie
#43
You’ll Actually Have $146 But Ok
#44
Bbc Didn’t Do The Math
#45
Actually The Margin Of Error Would Be +/- 650,000 Finns, It's The Population Of Finland Which Is Censused Here, Not The World
#47
Time Traveler On Showerthoughts
#48
Eating More For Less
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
probably priced by the person who thinks 1/3 is less than 1/4 because 3 is less than 4
#49
Close Enough. Put It Up
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
You can save 5.09 if you buy approximately 1.65 of that item. You're welcome
#50
When You Try To Correct Someone But You're Wrong
#51
Apparently 4+2 = 7
#52
Stanford Didn’t Quite Do The Math
#53
One Cookie Is Healthier? But Which One?
#55
Graphs Are Hard In The U.k.
#56
Wait A Minute...
Anna roberts 5 years ago
Some employees do it just to see how long it takes management to notice
#57
If You Plug Numbers In The Wrong Part Of The Equation, The Answer Can Be Anything You Want
#58
At A Local Eatery And I Saw, Written On A Box, This Attempt At (What Appears To Be) A Math Problem...
#59
Runescape Player Calculates Subscriber Money
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
And suddenly the 2008 financial crash is explained. This is "business math"....
#60
Butterfingers On The Calculator
#62
Uh Huh Hmmmm. I’ll Take 2 Sets Of Three’s Thanks!
#63
Flight Didn’t Take Quite This Long...their Math Was A Little Off
#64
I Don’t Think Pie Charts Work Like That
#65
How Much Money Is Disney Losing Due To Corona?
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
But Disney fired all staff and has almost no expenses. So they will deduct their "losses" in the next taxdeclaration and they still end up making profit.
#66
Time Divided By Distance Gets You Units Of Distance Over Time? Makes Sense To Me
Vero Morales 5 years ago
Mmmbut if I count the time that I spend in my shoes , it's usually faster hop or jump
#68
Movie Theater Math Is Hard
#69
Very Long Movie...
#70
Fabulous Tax Math
#71
Man's Got A Ping Going Well Beyond Our Solar System, And This Mf Still Stuck Behind On Mars
#72
328 Million X 1 Million = < 500 Million
#73
Spotted In Class Today
#74
What A Deal!
#75
How Does This Make Sense
Fin Diffenderfer 5 years ago
The numbers total 66... I think the person is saying since there's that 66 and there are 6 letters in Corona it's 666? But they could just be an idiot idk
#76
This Drawing My Friend Just Sent Me
#77
They Are Selling Each For 1.49$
#78
Infallible Logic
#79
Soooo... How Much Cash Back Do I Get?
#80
The More I Question Its Origin, The More My Brain Hurts
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago (edited)
Walmart always has weird prices like that on their app! I needed cinnamon and the options were to buy one for $4.50 or two for $2.99. I didn’t even look at the unit price, it was probably way off too. I do not need this much cinnamon.
#81
They Didn't Do The Math
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
After a short look to that, you don't need to make any further calculation. You just go to another provider
#82
Umm.. Who’s Gonna Tell Him?
Peter Kelly 5 years ago
I'm pretty sure that 1 trillion is a multiple of a million so, technically, correct.
#83
Makes Sense
Henry Cheves 5 years ago
Okay, the grams are wrong, but the percentages are Daily Values, which means how much of the nutrient you need to get in one day.
#86
At A Loss For How This Works Out
#87
Spotted On Cnn... Not Sure If This Counts But 50,0000
#88
Unless They Have Some Sort Of Time Machine
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Autumn Goode 4 years ago
Isn't number 21 correct? 8:20 is 20:20 on a 24 hour clock/"military time"
Ten myrie 4 years ago
that wasn't the prob. the sign said it would only happen once. it happened everyday for that entire year
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Catlady6000 5 years ago
Reading the posts, I was feeling so smart. Then I read the comments. Now, not so much. Kudos to the math side of BP
Nia Loves Art 5 years ago
I have gotten math embarrassingly wrong before but even I don’t understand how some of these happened.
Khadeja 5 years ago
With all due respect, that's not really OCD. That's just being human. Other people getting things wrong annoys us. OCD is not this, OCD is a serious mental disorder that isn't just 'oh i'm a perfectionist lol'.
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Autumn Goode 4 years ago
Isn't number 21 correct? 8:20 is 20:20 on a 24 hour clock/"military time"
Ten myrie 4 years ago
that wasn't the prob. the sign said it would only happen once. it happened everyday for that entire year
Load More Replies... Catlady6000 5 years ago
Reading the posts, I was feeling so smart. Then I read the comments. Now, not so much. Kudos to the math side of BP
Nia Loves Art 5 years ago
I have gotten math embarrassingly wrong before but even I don’t understand how some of these happened.
Khadeja 5 years ago
With all due respect, that's not really OCD. That's just being human. Other people getting things wrong annoys us. OCD is not this, OCD is a serious mental disorder that isn't just 'oh i'm a perfectionist lol'.
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