93 Times People Clearly Didn’t Do The Math And Ended Up Making Fools Of Themselves

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?!

#1 Small Brain Moment

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#2 So Close

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#3 When Did Free Become So Expensive?

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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 A Penny A Day For A Year Will Get You Nowhere

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#5 Not Sure That’s How That Works

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#6 Yep

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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 Not Age Appropriate.

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#8 Ah Yes, The 500 People Population Of The U. S.

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#9 For The 0.01th Time?

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#10 Makes Sense

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#11 ?‍♂️

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#12 Social Distancing

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#13 How Do I Take Advantage Of This Special?

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#14 What A Genius

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#15 Centaur Proportions.

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#16 Pemdas

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#17 Shouldn't A Vp At A Mortgage Company Understand How Compounding Interest Works?

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#18 20

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#19 At Least They Tried

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#20 Close Enough. Put It Up.

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#21 Only 4% Of The People Wash Their Hands?

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#22 Please Explain... Yes...

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#23 One In Four = Most??

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#24 What A Deal!

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#25 Apparently 4+2 = 7

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#26 Ignore The Comment

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#27 Hmm...

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#28 Seems About Right

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#29 Wow! What A Great Deal!.....wait....

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#30 Oof

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#31 Tiktokers Can’t Be This Dumb

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#32 Yummy Pie

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#33 I Don’t Think Pie Charts Work Like That

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#34 Actually The Margin Of Error Would Be +/- 650,000 Finns, It's The Population Of Finland Which Is Censused Here, Not The World.

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#35 Off By 100x. Still Way Too High But Holy Shit How Do You Mess This Up?

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#36 Ah Yes, Calculation

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#37 Valentine's Day Instant Baby Or That Elusive 4th Trimester Pregnancy

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#38 Communicative Property Is Anger

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#39 Once A Day For Whole Year

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#40 Fox Is Making Up Numbers

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#41 How Many Trips Back To The Store?

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#42 Time Traveler On Showerthoughts

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#43 You’ll Actually Have $146 But Ok

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#44 Bbc Didn’t Do The Math

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#45 Abc Did Not Do The Math

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#46 Wait A Minute...

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#47 This Was Not A Joke

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#48 Seems Right To Me..

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#49 When You Are Good At Posting To Reddit But Don't Know The Difference Between Mean And Median

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#50 Stanford Didn’t Quite Do The Math.

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#51 Windows Xp Bliss Wallpaper 19 Years Apart

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#52 Tipping Ain’t A City In China

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#53 One Cookie Is Healthier? But Which One?

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#54 Man's Got A Ping Going Well Beyond Our Solar System, And This Mf Still Stuck Behind On Mars ??‍♂️

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#55 328 Million X 1 Million = < 500 Million

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#56 Graphs Are Hard In The U.k.

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#57 10 Billion Billion - 7 Billion = 3 Billion Billion, Yeah

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#58 Spotted On Cnn... Not Sure If This Counts But 50,0000

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#59 At A Local Eatery And I Saw, Written On A Box, This Attempt At (What Appears To Be) A Math Problem...

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#60 How Does This Make Sense

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#61 Eating More For Less

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#62 Infallible Logic

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#63 Movie Theater Math Is Hard.

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#64 Yeah, That Don’t Add Up Sir

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#65 If You Plug Numbers In The Wrong Part Of The Equation, The Answer Can Be Anything You Want

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#66 They Are Always Right.

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#67 Spotted In Class Today

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#68 How Much Money Is Disney Losing Due To Corona?

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#69 I Don't Think Statistics Work That Way...

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#70 Runescape Player Calculates Subscriber Money.

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#71 Time Is Flexible

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#72 Time Divided By Distance Gets You Units Of Distance Over Time? Makes Sense To Me

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#73 They Didn't Do The Math

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#74 This Drawing My Friend Just Sent Me

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#75 Soooo... How Much Cash Back Do I Get?

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#76 They Are Selling Each For 1.49$ ???

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#77 Butterfingers On The Calculator

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#78 Very Long Movie...

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#79 6/Root(2)?

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#80 When You Try To Correct Someone But You're Wrong

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#81 Uh Huh Hmmmm. I’ll Take 2 Sets Of Three’s Thanks!

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#82 Flight Didn’t Take Quite This Long...their Math Was A Little Off.

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#83 Fabulous Tax Math

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#84 A Bad Representation Of 25%.

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#85 The More I Question Its Origin, The More My Brain Hurts

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#86 Yay! We All Win...

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#87 Someone Caught The Ladder Before It Fell, So There Was No Need To Find The Solution.

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#88 Umm.. Who’s Gonna Tell Him?

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#89 What A Deal!

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#90 Makes Sense...

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#91 And What Of The Other 0.09%?

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#92 At A Loss For How This Works Out...

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#93 Unless They Have Some Sort Of Time Machine.

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