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
The font is comic sans... The student shoulda known from the start that the quiz was gonna be poop XD
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Reminds me of the sorting engine in Ankh-Morpork, built by Bloody Stupid Johnson using a rounded π. It didn't end well.
Ah, yes, Bloody Stupid Johnson... he has a relative in government.
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The irrational, beautiful, transcendent 3.14(to who knows how many digits) is not amused.
At last Pi is finally solved! No more decimals to calculate, let´s round it in 5.
If my Math teacher did that, I'd tell them that you cannot chage the definition of π, that π is constant, and put duct-tape on their face to punish them for attempting to chage a constant. 🤐🤐🤐🤐
Wh... why wouldn’t you make pi *3* if you wanted them to be using whole numbers?
3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 To be clear, I didn’t look this up. I just randomly know these numbers
what now? Pi = 5. apparently I am already on a diff planet in a diff dimension where Pi = 5 or maybe 6 even, who knows
lol... ah yeah... pi in our lifetime or really since what, Pythagorus??? has never equaled 5. Sure it's an irrational number with a never repeating decimal progression but lets get down to the very simplest... 3.14. Pi = 3.14... forever and ever, amen.
That picture? That would be my youngest brother. The one with a master's in math, who has been a JC math instructor for 30 years. OMG.
In the 1880’s the Indiana legislature defined pi as 4. And we wonder why people think we’re a little slow.
And now AsapSCIENCE presents- 100 digits of π 3.14159, this is π Followed by 2-6-5-3-5-8-9 Circumference over diameter 7-9, then 3-2-3 OMG! Can't you see? 8-4-6-2-6-4-3 And now we're on a spree 38 and 32, now we're blue Oh, who knew? 7, 950 and then a two 88 and 41, so much fun Now a run 9-7-1-6-9-3-9-9 Then 3-7, 51 Halfway done! 0-5-8, now don't be late 2-0-9, where's the wine? 7-4, it's on the floor Then 9-4-4-5-9 2-3-0, we gotta go 7-8, we can't wait 1-6-4-0-6-2-8 We're almost near the end, keep going 62, we're getting through 0-8-9-9, on time 8-6-2-8-0-3-4 There's only a few more! 8-2, then 5-3 42, 11, 7-0 and 67 We're done! Was that fun? Learning random digits So that you can brag to your friends
It might be an exercise in doing quick mental approximations. Honestly there are some applications where pi = 1 is good enough.
No it is not. You would not be calculating the volume then
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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?
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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.
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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