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
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?
Motivational posters and motivational books totally turn me off. Mostly because those who hang the posters all over the place, and read way too many of the books, have a tendency to proselytize about them ad nauseum. And I do get nauseous when I smell ‘em comin’.
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I was just about to do the math on that. Thanks!
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Technically even if we take that literally its untrue. On the 2nd its 1% of 101% from the 1th day, 3rd day is 1% of 2nd day so its 102.01% and that decimal part keeps growing. So after 365 days it accumulates up to 3740,93%.... Take that motivational speakers!
Okay, so even if this math is right, how do you improve yourself by 1%? What are you measuring?
I dunno. This VP might be the one to calc your interest payments....
this is actually true ... don't see the issue her, or did I miss something?
"Percentage" versus "percentage points". For the first, the sequence should be: 100, 101 (100 + 1% of 100), 102.01 (101 + 1% of 101), 103.0201, 104.030201... For the second, it would be 100, 101 (100 + 1% of 100), 102 (101 + 1% of 100), 103, 104... It's the problem with not being clear.
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Is the hiker contemplating jumping off the mountain to disassociate herself from the text?
Actually, it's much better. 3,778% The formula for compound interest is: A = P (1 + r/n)^ (nt) where A = final Amount, P= initial investment =$1, r= interest rate =1% = 0.01, n = number of times compounded per unit time = 1 per day, t= number of time units = 365 days. So filling in the details 1(1+.01/1)^1*365 = (1+.01)^365 = 1.01^365 = $37.78, which is $3778%!
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?
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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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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
Load More Replies... 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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