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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Not Age Appropriate
Small Brain Moment
A Penny A Day For A Year Will Get You Nowhere
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.
Not Sure That’s How That Works
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.
Centaur Proportions.
So Close
Ah Yes, Calculation
Well, if he sleeps just three hours less, then it means he can drive for 27 hours per day...
Ignore The Comment
What A Genius
I'm sure he is not trolling, so it means that the second solution is correct
At Least They Tried
Yep
Also, diamond would isn't very tough. It's hard, but would shatter under the impact of the bullet, and the shards would impale the wearer. Game Theory did a video on it. To help, here's an analogy: Take a glass bottle, and a plastic bottle. The glass bottle is harder, yes? You can squeeze the plastic, but the glass remains firm. Now, throw both bottles at a wall. Which will break? The glass, since it's not as tough. The plastic is tougher than the glass, but not as hard.
I watched that video! It explained how diamond could shatter if you hit it at a tree because it had a low toughness. Iron is optimum and preferable because of its high toughness and hardness, while gold was correctly depicted as a really bad material for tools or armour.
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Could this exchange be any more wrong? Diamond is not a metal, its hardness is not related to impact resistance (even if you could create a continuous sheet), and I have no idea what the anonymous person was thinking (a carat weighs about 0.2g and the density is about 5 times that of water).
yes because law enforcement agencies will be able to afford all those diamond bullet proof vests....
You forget that a diamond will shatter if hit with an ordinary hammer...
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If I can have the first one at the price of the second one, I'll take it!
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Ah yes.. Then lets chase those annoying skeleton and creeper at night for revenge
Sometimes a stupid reply to a stupid statement sounds like an intentional joke.
it's probably not very stable in that form either.
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm where have i heard this before: is one pound of feathers lighter than one pound of bricks? i should think not but one pound of zippo sure is a little lighter
Where are these people getting their education? And, they're breeding. . . this is scary!
hahahahahahahhahhaaaa oh my. People really think this way? I mean there are some puzzlers out there that once you know the answer you kick yourself because it's so obvious, but this is just... I mean... Do people really think this way???
Ah, the old Moron vs Science saga!!! Last I checked Diamonds weren't metal, either.
hahahahahhah pound of feathers or pound of ball bearing..... hahahahah
omg - might also be a tad expensive to use diamonds don't ya think
Brittleness, you can't scratch diamond but a single smack with hammer will shatter it easily
When you not only don’t know what you ate talking about, but bray it to the world
everything about this is just wrong. Diamonds are not metal, 1g does not = 15 g, and the answer is HAVE YOU SEEN HOS MUCH DIAMONDS COST???? THEY ARE A PRECIOUS JEWEL.
The second guy COULD be technically correct if he means the volume of diamond equals so much weight, but it just sounds stupid the way he phrased it. A pound of feathers may weigh as much as a pound of lead, but a cup of lead is always heavier than a cup of feathers, so to speak
next thing they say is that they know this because they have a masters degree
Seems About Right
Makes Sense
Yay! We All Win
Fox Is Making Up Numbers
How Many Trips Back To The Store?
Ah Yes, The 500 People Population Of The U. S.
Once A Day For Whole Year
This Was Not A Joke
For The 0.01th Time?
Hmm...
How Do I Take Advantage Of This Special?
When Did Free Become So Expensive?
Please Explain... Yes...
Only 4% Of The People Wash Their Hands?
I still hope the numbers by CDC are wrong. Such a low percentage sounds outright disgusting.
Communicative Property Is Anger
Tiktokers Can’t Be This Dumb
Valentine's Day Instant Baby Or That Elusive 4th Trimester Pregnancy
Abc Did Not Do The Math
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
Social Distancing
IT WORKS!, but only if you can get people to stand in a tetrahedron.
Wow! What A Great Deal!.....wait....
Pemdas
What A Deal!
Shouldn't A Vp At A Mortgage Company Understand How Compounding Interest Works?
Oof
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?
Off By 100x. Still Way Too High But Holy Crap How Do You Mess This Up?
One In Four = Most??
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
Yummy Pie
You’ll Actually Have $146 But Ok
Bbc Didn’t Do The Math
Actually The Margin Of Error Would Be +/- 650,000 Finns, It's The Population Of Finland Which Is Censused Here, Not The World
Time Traveler On Showerthoughts
Eating More For Less
probably priced by the person who thinks 1/3 is less than 1/4 because 3 is less than 4
Close Enough. Put It Up
You can save 5.09 if you buy approximately 1.65 of that item. You're welcome
When You Try To Correct Someone But You're Wrong
Apparently 4+2 = 7
Stanford Didn’t Quite Do The Math
One Cookie Is Healthier? But Which One?
Graphs Are Hard In The U.k.
Wait A Minute...
If You Plug Numbers In The Wrong Part Of The Equation, The Answer Can Be Anything You Want
At A Local Eatery And I Saw, Written On A Box, This Attempt At (What Appears To Be) A Math Problem...
Runescape Player Calculates Subscriber Money
And suddenly the 2008 financial crash is explained. This is "business math"....
Butterfingers On The Calculator
Uh Huh Hmmmm. I’ll Take 2 Sets Of Three’s Thanks!
Flight Didn’t Take Quite This Long...their Math Was A Little Off
I Don’t Think Pie Charts Work Like That
How Much Money Is Disney Losing Due To Corona?
But Disney fired all staff and has almost no expenses. So they will deduct their "losses" in the next taxdeclaration and they still end up making profit.
Time Divided By Distance Gets You Units Of Distance Over Time? Makes Sense To Me
Mmmbut if I count the time that I spend in my shoes , it's usually faster hop or jump
Movie Theater Math Is Hard
Very Long Movie...
Fabulous Tax Math
Man's Got A Ping Going Well Beyond Our Solar System, And This Mf Still Stuck Behind On Mars
328 Million X 1 Million = < 500 Million
Spotted In Class Today
What A Deal!
How Does This Make Sense
The numbers total 66... I think the person is saying since there's that 66 and there are 6 letters in Corona it's 666? But they could just be an idiot idk
This Drawing My Friend Just Sent Me
They Are Selling Each For 1.49$
Infallible Logic
Soooo... How Much Cash Back Do I Get?
The More I Question Its Origin, The More My Brain Hurts
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.
They Didn't Do The Math
After a short look to that, you don't need to make any further calculation. You just go to another provider
Umm.. Who’s Gonna Tell Him?
I'm pretty sure that 1 trillion is a multiple of a million so, technically, correct.
Makes Sense
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.
And What Of The Other 0.09%?
Yeah, That Don’t Add Up Sir
At A Loss For How This Works Out
Spotted On Cnn... Not Sure If This Counts But 50,0000
Unless They Have Some Sort Of Time Machine
I have dyscalculia and still knew that some of these are wildly wrong!
Having dyscalculia must make life very difficult at times.
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This is what happens when you underfund education and underpay teachers.
Isn't number 21 correct? 8:20 is 20:20 on a 24 hour clock/"military time"
that wasn't the prob. the sign said it would only happen once. it happened everyday for that entire year
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Reading the posts, I was feeling so smart. Then I read the comments. Now, not so much. Kudos to the math side of BP
My brain still rejects numbers. Straight to the comments where it's only capable of processing funny words!
I have gotten math embarrassingly wrong before but even I don’t understand how some of these happened.
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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I have dyscalculia and still knew that some of these are wildly wrong!
Having dyscalculia must make life very difficult at times.
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Isn't number 21 correct? 8:20 is 20:20 on a 24 hour clock/"military time"
that wasn't the prob. the sign said it would only happen once. it happened everyday for that entire year
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My brain still rejects numbers. Straight to the comments where it's only capable of processing funny words!
I have gotten math embarrassingly wrong before but even I don’t understand how some of these happened.
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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