Today, I got a big math test back. Good news: I can connect abstract ideas beyond what was taught. Bad news: I can’t do simple math, such as 30/-5. I failed. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, disappointed with my results on a mathematics test, I went over it and realized my teacher had added up the marks incorrectly, leaving me with 17% less than I earned. The person who's supposed to be teaching me math can't even perform basic arithmetic. FML
Today, I cheated on my math exam. I still failed. FML
Today, I got my first university math midterm back. I did so bad that my teacher put a sadface on the first page. FML
Today, I missed points on a math quiz because I thought 2 times 5 was 20. I'm a math major. FML
Today, I realized my brain has degraded so fucking much when I could only do one math question over the span of 24 hours. FML
Today, I had to complete a simple math problem to submit a web form in order to show that I wasn't a spam robot. I got it wrong. I'm officially too bad at arithmetic to prove I'm human. FML
Today, I got back my math test. Instead of taking the time to mark the mistakes, my professor just circled the bottom half of the page and wrote "OMG." FML
Today, I failed my maths exam because of one single question, which I have been practicing for months and gotten very good at it. It was the first question… however, when the exam started, I forgot it all. FML
Today, I failed a calculus exam because I simply was too burnt out to study for it. I have not wanted to even look at a math problem since the beginning of the year, and I procrastinate all day instead of doing work, and it leads me here, typing at 2 a.m. to random strangers while having to get up tomorrow at 7. FML
Today, I had the worst day of my life. I'd studied science for the whole damn night, only to realize the next morning that it's a math exam. FML
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Tripartita 45
“…I most therefore conclude that, given some quantity of energy, it can be equated to the product of mass and the speed of light raised to the second power. In other words, E=mc². Anyway, back to the original question: 30/–5 = purple”
RichardPencil 32
I’m sure you’ll land a job paying more than $100,000i a year!
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Yudith 28
You call "simple math" dividing a positive number by a negative one?
bethrh 49
That is simple maths
Yudith 28
Gee, I'm sorry, I only learned that with my algebra. Simple math was more like "numbers begin with zero. If you get less than zero, your answer is wrong".
maikeru1979 23
gee glad to know you are a donkey(a polite word for the one I wanted to use) in the UK where bethany is from basic maths is i believe anything under calculus which includes aglebra
Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 20
In Austria anything that doesn't involve integrals and shit like that is basic
bethrh 49
Dividing by a negative number is easy. It just makes the answer negative. What’s not simple about that?
Bingo_Bango 13
You might remember that being fresh out of high school Bethany, but 15 years in the workforce in accounting and programming, I had to have a good think about how to divide by a negative, because nobody uses that logic in the real world and if you did, you'd have software give you the answer. You shouldn't be so high n mighty about something fresh in your memory. Someone who can connect abstract ideas is clearly intelligent, the smartest maths minds often overlook the simple.
tj4234 36
I left school almost 10 years ago and still remember it...
Sheepiebeepie 26
You can't divide by a negative number
bethrh 49
Seeing as I’m from the UK I’m not ‘fresh out of high school’ because we don’t have high school. It’s called secondary school. I haven’t studied maths in 4 years. Don’t see how that’s acting ‘high and mighty’
I'madumbass 19
That is totally me!!!!!!! Things like this is the reason for my username, people, not my actual intellectual ability. Anyways, a little advice for OP: Always keep track of what you're doing. It really helps.
Tripartita 45
“…I most therefore conclude that, given some quantity of energy, it can be equated to the product of mass and the speed of light raised to the second power. In other words, E=mc². Anyway, back to the original question: 30/–5 = purple”
Shabnam Moghal 14
I got Greece
Tripartita 45
I think you forgot to carry the 1.
Shabnam Moghal 14
The first 1 or the second 1?
RichardPencil 32
I’m sure you’ll land a job paying more than $100,000i a year!
Bingo_Bango 13
I did, $110K here, as a Financial Systems Analyst (and good at it), with no school diploma or qualifications, and I couldn't get that equation. Why can't they too again? Analytical skills trumps simple maths any day. You're force fed to believe in the school system's cookie cutter syllabus as a measure of intelligence.
RichardPencil 32
Oh, dear, you missed the joke. You see, the “i” after the dollars amount is the imaginary unit (the square root of negative one) suggesting that the OP would get paid in imaginary dollars. People with a decent high-school math(s) background appreciated that joke.
Bingo_Bango 13
Nah, you're just being smug as per history, passing it off as humor. You're still implying that the 100 is not achievable because it's imaginary and unobtainable. Same same. INSERT INTO RESPONSE select 'I_get_jokes_too_meme.jpg'
kansas_girl03 13
Isn’t the answer -6?
Nightowlflies 26
That’s the same answer I got.
Rabite 28
I always wonder why people write their results as comments under stuff like this. Do you want to show how smart you are that you solved this huge mathematical problem? I mean this doesn't even need any discussion. It wouldn't be an FML if this wasn't something every person over the age of 9 should know.
kansas_girl03 13
Just ******* replying geez take a chill pill. I haven’t done this kind of math in a long time so just seeing if anyone else got the same thing. ****
GIJoefan 6
Even Einstein had issues with basic arithmetic.
kujiens101 24
That’s actually a myth. If you read his book “Reality” he explains how when he was in geometry, I think it was his 8th grade, he identified a fundamental misconception of the geometry at the time and he was proven right 20 years later
Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 20
Good news: the simple math can be done via calculator
DragonMaiden7 15
Helpful hint for the future. A negative multiplied by a negative will always result in a positive. A positive multiplied by a negative will always be a negative. A positive multiplied by a positive is always a positive. So just apply that logic when dividing. 30/-5 would automatically give you the answer of -6, because the other options are automatically ruled out. Hope this helps if you have a make-up test OP, or if anyone else has trouble.
PennyLane27 32
A shortened version of that- in multiplication and division, an odd number of negatives will equal a negative. An even number of negatives will equal a positive.
InsanityShard 23
Eh, not unusual. I can do most math fine, except division. No matter how it's taught it just doesn't seem to work in my head. Reverse multiplication my ass.
tonyfan00 38
By "abstract ideas", do you mean "taking acid"? That would explain the test score...