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
Seems Right To Me..
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?
And even the testing math is not true, as positive rates do not simply scale with the number of tests but are dependent on many factors.
He can't do math. The election keeps showing that he can't figure out which is bigger, 306 or 232.
Load More Replies...I'm stuck on the 1/100th time. Is that shorthand to mean something else? How do you say something for the one one-hundreth time?
It is tRump-speak, and thus not meriting any amount of actual thought and consideration.
Load More Replies...Bestest math!! They said, probably, likely, best math ever recorded on earth. Smartest person too! Big smarts. HUUUUGE smarts. Huge smarts, huge maths, big brains! Big hands too! BIGGEST hands. HUUUGE hands writing down smartest maths. *meanwhile his followers are there like WOAH!!! SEEEEE!!!*
He's not good at business either. His empire is going to come crashing down on January 21st.
Load More Replies...How is this tard in charge of anything??? “Is much bigger and better”? As a 3rd grade English teacher, I can say with confidence that my kids can teach you a thing or two. You should go back to 1st grade.
I’m surprised you got so many votes calling him a tard on BP lol. He’s in charge because the other idiots voted him in. People dumber than him love him, which is like 30% of the country.
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Load More Replies...The sad thing is that a lot of people suffer from the consequences of his recklessness. I wish they'd depose him IMMEDIATELY.
Load More Replies...Proper use of 1/100: Trump does not speak the truth even 1/100 of the time.
I’m looking forward to normal again, next year, when we have a sane man running the country
YESS!!! IVE GOT IT!!! STOP TESTING EVERYONE AND THE CORONAVIRUS WILL END!!!
Ah, yes. The boss of stupidity. Was waiting for him to show up here...
I'm convinced he's illeterate and trying to hide it. Either that or there's some strange math that's taught in schools for the rich, elite and entitled, that teaches math in terms of one plus the tooth fairy equals twenty bicycles and magic science teaches that, directionally, the sun rises in the West and no one knows where East is, because East got mad at them and hasn't been in touch for a while.
I've been embarrassed for America for the last 4 years. I'm hoping the next 4 will redeem us in the eyes of the world.
I would like to apologize on behalf of the 54% of Americans who know how to think, and do math, that he was installed to Office. He was not elected by the popular vote, just so ya know (lost that by 3.5M). It was our damned Electoral College that installed him.
Believe me - most of us are completely embarrassed that he ever became President. He's a f*****g moron.
Why is anyone surprised, we knew he was stupid before he was elected.
And if all those teenaged girls we don't provide family planning tools to would just stop peeing on sticks there'd be MUCH less teen pregnancy.
no the sad part is that this is normal for him.
Load More Replies...This doesn’t surprise me if it comes from the carrot of presidents
i don't like trump, BUT that's not what he meant
Load More Replies...So glad this moron is out the door. 1/100th? So this is the first time? And you're gonna repeat yourself 99/100 more times and THEN it'll be the 100th time!? And the testing thing, that only works if what your testing is how many tests you've done. Anything else and this dunce his failing math, science....life in general. What a failure.
No it isn’t even the first time. If he does 100/100 times, he will have done it one full time. Fractions work this way.
Load More Replies...Did you guys know that Trump is the oldest president, currently? But next year, the oldest president will be Biden.
Also, I do not get why the US's testing would be better.
Load More Replies...Every single time I read a Trump tweet (which fortunately isn't often, since I', not American) I think it MUST be some kind of joke. That 40% of Americans feel well represented by this creature is a truly alarming thought given how large and powerful the US are.
How many other US citizens just wanted to pretend to be Canadian after tweets like this came from POTUS?
If there had been no testing at all, many more people would have become ill with Covid-19. This is because people who are unsymptomatic (or believe they only have a slight cold) when they are tested will have to isolate. If they had not been tested, they would have been out and about spreading it all over the place.
Actually there is a LITTLE logic. During the first wave the CFR was incredibly high compared to the second wave and much of this was due to undiagnosed cases which were asymptomatic being missed. Of course, now that testing (worldwide) has gotten off the ground a little we can see a more realistic picture of how poorly we are performing..
But we would be in a much worse spot than we already are, s be grateful that we did this much testing, idiot.
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?
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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.
Load More Replies...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
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'.
Load More Replies...I have dyscalculia and still knew that some of these are wildly wrong!
Having dyscalculia must make life very difficult at times.
Load More Replies...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
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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