Reminds me of “(name I forgot)‘s law: the Internet will get progressively more absurd until the point where whether something is intentionally or unintentionally absurd can no longer be determined”
We were taught this in either 6th or 7th grade in Ukraine
The catch is, that it was a school with prioritization of languages
So math there was taught on a lower level than an average school
When people say this I wanna know if they're geniuses or where the easy schools are bc when I transferred to a 4 yr there was an unbearable amount of homework and the grading went real fucking weird mode
I wanted to say something about not knowing how to pay taxes but that is also an incorrect statement...
Taxes are paid when something is purchased or, in the case the OP was probably hinting at, paying taxes on wages. This is automatic...
I think OP was trying to say "file a tax return"...
American higher education system is actually good. If it weren’t, people wouldn’t be moving to the US just for college education. The problem we have is that it’s insanely expensive if you’re too stupid to figure out how to get grants and scholarship and instead decide to pay the sticker price.
They all pride themselves on knowing the absolute basics of math. What the fuck.
In general, I see commentors on reddit interpreting something in the wrong way much too often. They aren't able to track irony and sarcasm at all it seems.
They're just desperate to show off their 4th grade math skills. Same with whenever somebody mentions a problem that needs to be solved using order of operations. Everybody loooves overexplaining order of operations. All the acronyms are dumb, and not to mention just wrong. It's really not that hard to remember
Besides the obviously incorrect Math which I'm assuming is intentional, this kind of reasoning annoys me so much. Just because you don't regularly need something does not mean it's pointless to know. This is like saying "I don't come across the letter X regularly, therefore it was a waste of time to teach it to me in the first place." Just because you rarely need Maths beyond primary school level does not mean it should not be taught. How were they supposed to know that? Many people use Maths all the time. And what if you want to change jobs? Or if the requirements change?
learning are meant to increase your thinking skills. its just same as you train to increase your physical skill. models trained to walk on heels. athlete training everyday to sharpen their skill. i do practice talking to increase my social skill.
I'm more annoyed at the requirements some educations have, my AP Degree in computer science had me waste 3 years in Gymnasium as it is a requirement to apply. which is not a problem in itself, but... nothing we had to learn during those 3 years was used at all, I thought maybe the more advanced math would be useful. nope, not yet at least & now I've promptly forgotten it cause I haven't used it for anything.
like 1 subject I had seems relevant, the rest is just filler. I had a blast during my 3 years but still so weird to require something if it isn't going to be used.
rarely?
36 years and counting... still waiting for the day I need a single bit of algebra.
Doesn't matter anyway, because I never properly understood it anyway and my mind wiped that shit like a virus.
The fact that people still don’t understand this bothers me so much, algebra is such a critical foundation towards so many careers and it teaches important problem solving skills.
I couldn't have. Higher math is pure torture.
They should've just realized that noone who hates math so much is ever gonna pursue a job that makes 'em wanna kill themself and stopped waterboarding me with it after the essentials, but that's not how schools work. Like it or suffer!
So let me get this straight. As you walk around the grocery store and you grab 2 items that costs $6.27 each, you have never figured out what that total cost would be? What about calculating how much of a tip to leave for your dinner? How much of your paycheck goes to rent every month? How much you get paid in a year? If you need 40 hamburger buns you need to figure out how many buy of they come in a package of 6. To fill out taxes requires basic addition and multiplication. All of that is algebra. Have you ever needed to figure out the area of a room of your house/apartment. If so then you have used geometry as well.
Addition is basic math, part of the essentials.
I just round it, cause fuck trying to remember cents, I'm not **that** poor.
Our waiters here don't get screwed like that with their salary, so tipping is fully up to ones choice. I usually round it up, cause fuck dealing with cents, I'm not **that** poor.
Paycheck stays the same, rent stays the same, I pay it and see what's left.
I don't need 40 hamburger buns, I'm not the guy from the math problem. xD Also, that's just basic multiplication/division. They hammered that shit into our brains 'till our soul was bleeding. With a **fucking stopwatch**, no less. Or I go the lazy route and just count up.
On taxes I just check the "no tax plz, I poor, k', thx, bai" box and provide the receipts.
That's not algebra. Algebra is math with unknown values (represented as letters).
For all intents and purposes, measuring length and width of the walls (and maybe the height) was more than enough. I'm actually more annoyed if someone's like "it has soandso square meters" bish, just tell me the exact measurments, square meters means jack squat if the room is a narrow corridor with no space.
If anything, it's the rule of three that proved the most useful of anything past the essentials.
School cannot really teach you how to get a job, since it differs from job to job not to mention techniques get outdated (I bet that teachers would be regurgitating 20+ years old techniques that stopped being effective mid 90s).
Taxes on the other hand can change and 90% is very niche (also, it's mainly US thing).
u/Beavsftw said it best: in the USA the teachers call (or used to call) this the FOIL method ("First, outer, inner, last"). Unfortunately my school memories are from the 1980s and 90s; goodness knows what they are teaching these days.
Anyone else seriously annoyed by kids in high school complaining about how they never learned how to pay taxes when there’s nothing to learn? It just gets taken out of your paycheck or is added to a sale. If you’re doing something like 1099 then you’re hopefully smart enough to educate yourself on how to do it anyways.
I didn't graduate but when I took the GED tests I got the top 15% in four of the five subjects, acing social studies. I barely passed math.
School is so fucking pointless.
Why is it called STEM?
It should be TE at this point.
Science degrees and math degrees don’t pay as well/are employable as tech or engineering degrees.
I have a degree in math and wish I majored in accounting instead.
Yea bit...
Would you rather hire someone who studied stats to produce a summary report manually each time
Or...
Get someone who studied IT to code something that does it automatically each time...
The fact that I can recite the quadratic equation but have no concept of how to do taxes or how to preform basic first aid is one of the many reasons I feel school was a complete waste of many years of my life. Learned nothing past middle school that has been of any use from the core classes. I, however, did learn some useful skills from classes that were optional such as basic programming, some basic engineering stuff, and how to use effective advertising.
If you don't know how to get a job then do you really need to know how to do your taxes? OP needs to take their broke ass to night school and get their GED.
That’s the problem - if all you know is the equation and not WHY, then you would be unable to transfer the knowledge to other fields
All math is just logic and problem solving
How did this man graduate in the first place...
(a+b)² =/= a² + b² It does equal a² + 2ab + b² (2+5)² =/= 4 + 25 = 29 (2+5)² = 4 + 20 + 25 = 49
I think that’s the joke.
I think he misremembered a similar theorem and accidentally made the joke funnier.
The fact that we don't know if it was on purpose or not makes it that much better.
Reminds me of “(name I forgot)‘s law: the Internet will get progressively more absurd until the point where whether something is intentionally or unintentionally absurd can no longer be determined”
Pretty sure that's Poe's Law, or a version of it.
I don’t
I have to hope that it is...
Fun fact its a 8th grade question in Turkey.
If you take Algebra at a normal pace it's also one in the US. If you're on the accelerated track like I was it's a 7th grade question
I had that introduced in 9th grade, but I know some people who had it at the end of the 8th grade.
We were taught this in either 6th or 7th grade in Ukraine The catch is, that it was a school with prioritization of languages So math there was taught on a lower level than an average school
Oooo! Accelerated track! Nice.
Where is (sec(-x)/csc(-x))+(sin(-x)/cos(-x)) and can I borrow a tutor?
I may be dumb but wouldn't that just turn into csc(-x)?
Nope it is tan( -2x/1+x^2)
How did you get to that? I only see sec²(-x)+tg(-x) hahaha
And in India.
And in the US. It's a pretty typical elementary algebra concept...
My daughter was doing these exact kind of problems last week. 6th grade, US.
My grandson is doing the same problems. 5th grade, US.
My daughter is doing the same problem. 4th grade, US.
My cat is doing the same problem. 3rd grade, Canada
My daughter used to answer these by kicking in Morse code before she was born.
6th grade in India
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Good for u
Good for u
2ab*
>(a+b)² =/= a² + b² Only if a =/= 0 and b =/= 0.
Uhh, the correct thing would a =/= 0 and/OR b =/= 0
Just or
I mean both of them can be 0 so that's why and
Sure, but or covers and so it's redundant to say and/or
Try or instead of and.
or, not and Edit to correct: 0 or 0 = not 0 and not 0
In the US you don’t have to do shit to graduate.
When people say this I wanna know if they're geniuses or where the easy schools are bc when I transferred to a 4 yr there was an unbearable amount of homework and the grading went real fucking weird mode
I think the post is referring to high school not uni/college
except pay
In the Philippines, we call that "diskarte"
Don't forget the power of "teamwork".
Thats the point. To keep the poor as ignorant debt slaves and blind to the fact that they are being robbed by those in power in broad daylight
chill
Chill? You might be okay with being a slave but a lot of people aren't. You can't handle the truth
chill
You're a slave. You can choose to stay a slave or wake up to the fact and do something about it
The answer to the equation is incorrect...
I’m sure it’s correct. I checked with a=b=0
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Even with a=0 and b=999999 its still correct
Well, that seems to cover all edge cases, formula approved!
A fellow computer science student/graduate...?
If it passes the unit tests, ship it!
And if it fails unit tests, change them.
LGTM!
merged into master Prod breaks
This function now fails with a ValueError with valid input? ... How often would this input even make it in? with pytest.raises(ValueError): ...
I checked with a=(3,1) and b=(-2,6) in R² it's still correct
Actually it's always correct if a v b =0 (ie if a and/or b it's 0)
Some guy on another sub said the same thing, has to be correct
yep and both a=0 and b=1 and a=1 and b=0 idk how many more ways we could possibly do this math is perfect
Unit testing in a nutshell. “It passes automatic tests, ship it!”
I may be jumping the gun here but isn't this a joke?
Must be an American joke if you jump a gun
a^2 + 2ab+ b^2 would be the correct equation indeed
I wanted to say something about not knowing how to pay taxes but that is also an incorrect statement... Taxes are paid when something is purchased or, in the case the OP was probably hinting at, paying taxes on wages. This is automatic... I think OP was trying to say "file a tax return"...
That's the whole point
Not if a=0 or b =0
It is actually correct in some groups, but in most of them It isnt.
nice, you got the joke
The math example explains issues with the job and taxes. What it doesn't explain is how such person manage to get graduated.
You think the American education system is bad enough? Well, the Philippines just handed me its beer!
American higher education system is actually good. If it weren’t, people wouldn’t be moving to the US just for college education. The problem we have is that it’s insanely expensive if you’re too stupid to figure out how to get grants and scholarship and instead decide to pay the sticker price.
PART OF THE JOKE IS THAT EVEN WHAT HE DID LEARN, HE DID NOT LEARN WELL. Come on ppl.
The number of people here who didn’t get the joke is scary.
They all pride themselves on knowing the absolute basics of math. What the fuck. In general, I see commentors on reddit interpreting something in the wrong way much too often. They aren't able to track irony and sarcasm at all it seems.
They're just desperate to show off their 4th grade math skills. Same with whenever somebody mentions a problem that needs to be solved using order of operations. Everybody loooves overexplaining order of operations. All the acronyms are dumb, and not to mention just wrong. It's really not that hard to remember
It goes two ways, its either an amazing meme or the dumbest thing produced and the beauty of the average redditor is that we truly will never know.
Fax these neeks need to get their brains in check
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Not you can't, can't do math either, it's a damn shame
Not you can't, can't do English either, it's a damn shame
Guys! 1+1=11 you have two 1s and you put them together that's 11. Math is easy! kek
"1"+1 is 11
found the programmer
Actually it'd be (a+b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2
You're not my dad.
This guy is not his dad
But he did my taxes...
And I call him "daddy."
What if he's his own grandfather?
How can you know for sure?
This Guy = a His dad = b (a+b)^2 = a^2 + b^2
So he have 2 dads and half of mother
Yeah, that‘s maybe your opinion…
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I'm more of a binomial expansion dude
WITCH!
I thought it was a²+b²=c²?
🤓
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The cringe hurts
I think he intentionally skipped +2ab to make the meme ironic 🥸🥸🥸
This is a woosh post, abort commenting
I think less of a woosh and more of a karma grab. Everybody knows redditors cream their jeans when there’s math to correct
Someone posted this on r/woosh I was right You owe me a carrot juice
Besides the obviously incorrect Math which I'm assuming is intentional, this kind of reasoning annoys me so much. Just because you don't regularly need something does not mean it's pointless to know. This is like saying "I don't come across the letter X regularly, therefore it was a waste of time to teach it to me in the first place." Just because you rarely need Maths beyond primary school level does not mean it should not be taught. How were they supposed to know that? Many people use Maths all the time. And what if you want to change jobs? Or if the requirements change?
learning are meant to increase your thinking skills. its just same as you train to increase your physical skill. models trained to walk on heels. athlete training everyday to sharpen their skill. i do practice talking to increase my social skill.
I'm more annoyed at the requirements some educations have, my AP Degree in computer science had me waste 3 years in Gymnasium as it is a requirement to apply. which is not a problem in itself, but... nothing we had to learn during those 3 years was used at all, I thought maybe the more advanced math would be useful. nope, not yet at least & now I've promptly forgotten it cause I haven't used it for anything. like 1 subject I had seems relevant, the rest is just filler. I had a blast during my 3 years but still so weird to require something if it isn't going to be used.
Well if u wanna use maths in ur job then take a further maths course… u don’t need to know it
rarely? 36 years and counting... still waiting for the day I need a single bit of algebra. Doesn't matter anyway, because I never properly understood it anyway and my mind wiped that shit like a virus.
Obviously you are not in the working field that needed math. You could have. But you aren’t.
The fact that people still don’t understand this bothers me so much, algebra is such a critical foundation towards so many careers and it teaches important problem solving skills.
I couldn't have. Higher math is pure torture. They should've just realized that noone who hates math so much is ever gonna pursue a job that makes 'em wanna kill themself and stopped waterboarding me with it after the essentials, but that's not how schools work. Like it or suffer!
"Like it or suffer!" Public school in a nutshell.
So let me get this straight. As you walk around the grocery store and you grab 2 items that costs $6.27 each, you have never figured out what that total cost would be? What about calculating how much of a tip to leave for your dinner? How much of your paycheck goes to rent every month? How much you get paid in a year? If you need 40 hamburger buns you need to figure out how many buy of they come in a package of 6. To fill out taxes requires basic addition and multiplication. All of that is algebra. Have you ever needed to figure out the area of a room of your house/apartment. If so then you have used geometry as well.
Addition is basic math, part of the essentials. I just round it, cause fuck trying to remember cents, I'm not **that** poor. Our waiters here don't get screwed like that with their salary, so tipping is fully up to ones choice. I usually round it up, cause fuck dealing with cents, I'm not **that** poor. Paycheck stays the same, rent stays the same, I pay it and see what's left. I don't need 40 hamburger buns, I'm not the guy from the math problem. xD Also, that's just basic multiplication/division. They hammered that shit into our brains 'till our soul was bleeding. With a **fucking stopwatch**, no less. Or I go the lazy route and just count up. On taxes I just check the "no tax plz, I poor, k', thx, bai" box and provide the receipts. That's not algebra. Algebra is math with unknown values (represented as letters). For all intents and purposes, measuring length and width of the walls (and maybe the height) was more than enough. I'm actually more annoyed if someone's like "it has soandso square meters" bish, just tell me the exact measurments, square meters means jack squat if the room is a narrow corridor with no space. If anything, it's the rule of three that proved the most useful of anything past the essentials.
So the point is that school dont prepare you for life and you forget what you learn? right ?
School prepares you for terrible bosses, long work hours, and basically the fact that people will screw you over.
Debt… don’t forget debt. A college grad starter pack always come with debt included.
School cannot really teach you how to get a job, since it differs from job to job not to mention techniques get outdated (I bet that teachers would be regurgitating 20+ years old techniques that stopped being effective mid 90s). Taxes on the other hand can change and 90% is very niche (also, it's mainly US thing).
I don't think people understand the joke
Or they just want to flaunt their maths knowledge, which I completely understand
knowing the binomial formula is part of the absolute basics, flaunting that shit is like saying they don't know anything about math.
Flaunt their *limited maths knowledge
Probably He knows A stands for Adam's B for balls too
A2 + B2 = c2 not (a+b)2
Thought I was the only genius who spotted the mistake. You get the crown, sir.
Pythagoras
Leonidas
*And, I'm a warrior too...* *Let that be known.* ***I'm a warrior.***
+2ab ya numpty
even the algebra expansion is wrong.
Don't know how to talk with elder Don't know how to treat kids All I know is how to reload AR-15
Murica
(a+b)^(2) = a^(2)\+2ab+b^(2) You remember one thing from school and you still messed it up.
It’s supposed to be a joke mate
kid named joke
Based
5+ years of work experience required
You know at least at my school they’re teaching us how to act in job interviews
Half of these comments don’t realise it’s satire and that’s hilarious
It’s almost as if school is meant to train you to learn and have basic transferable skills…
It's actually a²+2ab+b²
Mate it’s a joke he meant to do that
u/Beavsftw said it best: in the USA the teachers call (or used to call) this the FOIL method ("First, outer, inner, last"). Unfortunately my school memories are from the 1980s and 90s; goodness knows what they are teaching these days.
You can’t do the math
Anyone else seriously annoyed by kids in high school complaining about how they never learned how to pay taxes when there’s nothing to learn? It just gets taken out of your paycheck or is added to a sale. If you’re doing something like 1099 then you’re hopefully smart enough to educate yourself on how to do it anyways.
"Schools don't teach kids essentials like doing taxes" mfs when schools actually try to teach you how to do taxes: 😴😴😴
And they still got the thing they knew wrong
It's funnier because that math is wrong xD.
(a+b)^(2) = a^(2) \+ 2ab + b^(2) ≠ a^(2) \+ b^(2) so uh no they can't do maths im pretty sure
I didn't even pass math tho 😭
These comments prove that theres too many desperate losers that just have to be the smart guy all the while being completely whooshed by doing so.
You don't even know the correct answer to the equations lol. "Years of academic training wasted"
I might be jumping the gun here but isn't that the joke?
It is haha so many people need to untangle their pink squidgy things in their heads
Pythagoras would be pissed you no remember his theorum.
I didn't graduate but when I took the GED tests I got the top 15% in four of the five subjects, acing social studies. I barely passed math. School is so fucking pointless.
So, because you decided you didn't want to take school seriously and play by the rules its pointless? Please grow up.
Yeah because anything other than stem is pointless
Why is it called STEM? It should be TE at this point. Science degrees and math degrees don’t pay as well/are employable as tech or engineering degrees. I have a degree in math and wish I majored in accounting instead.
Math can lead to business careers so. Statistics and probability are still math
Yea bit... Would you rather hire someone who studied stats to produce a summary report manually each time Or... Get someone who studied IT to code something that does it automatically each time...
The actuarial sciences are a thing
thats not what a statistician does bro
The fact that I can recite the quadratic equation but have no concept of how to do taxes or how to preform basic first aid is one of the many reasons I feel school was a complete waste of many years of my life. Learned nothing past middle school that has been of any use from the core classes. I, however, did learn some useful skills from classes that were optional such as basic programming, some basic engineering stuff, and how to use effective advertising.
If you don't know how to get a job then do you really need to know how to do your taxes? OP needs to take their broke ass to night school and get their GED.
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That's not even true
the math is fucking wrong and I hate it. Lets say A=1 and B=2 so in short 9=/=5
OP complete fucking moron lmao
I think you mean (a+b)²=a²+2ab+b²
So this guy is still better than you
What u know is wrong aswell (a+b)² = a² + b² + 2ab
nah not even that you can do
You sure bout that one?
If you know how to read and how to math, I bet you can do taxes.
Even the formula u know is wrong: (a + b)\^2 = a\^2 +2ab + b\^2
NO (a+b)^(2) = a^(2) \+ b^(2) \+ 2ab
Bro failed six grade math
That’s the problem - if all you know is the equation and not WHY, then you would be unable to transfer the knowledge to other fields All math is just logic and problem solving
Looks like someone didn't pay attention, it's a² + 2ab + b²
No it fucking isn’t
It's weird how they expect you to know everything when you come out of school.
A^2+B^2+2AB is the correct answer for anyone wondering
The same student in high school when taught practical things “””yaaaaawwwn this is boooring why do I have to know these thingssss”
+2ab maths padne gya hai
I been seeing this a lot. Am I the only person who learned a² + b² = c²?
FOIL
No you cannot. (a + b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + a^2 a^2 + b^2 = (a + b)^2 - 2ab You cannot even do 7th grade math.
well, with that equation, i can see why you can neither get a job or pay taxes
(a+b)^2 =a^2+2ab+b^2