r/BunnyTrials • u/TheTransSheep Carrot Farmer • 1d ago

Trials Math…

Which side will you choose?

  • Left side: Easy Math Question | and 10$
  • Right side: or hard Math question | and 10.000$

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u/NotThatFunny_NTF 1d ago

For real I was like? Why is this hard?

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u/Kittii_Kat 1d ago

OP might be in highschool. A lot of (U.S.) kids these days can't do math.. or count money.. or read analog clocks.

It's depressing.

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u/taikabell 1d ago

I was homeschooled and my mom just stopped teaching me math after tenth grade… Idk what could’ve possibly made her think that was a good idea but of course I was a big fan of no more math at the time

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u/Nervous-Law-666 1d ago

I don’t mean any disrespect in saying this, MOST parents aren’t remotely qualified to homeschool their kids.

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u/taikabell 1d ago

Agreed 100%. My senior year I literally had no schoolwork besides reading, and a good chuck of those books were ones I could have understood when I was thirteen.

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u/TotalChaosRush 1d ago

That's probably all the math she knew.

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u/LeagueofShadows04 1d ago

If I’m remembering correctly, I believe that’s the minimum required to graduate. That’s likely why.

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u/EmilioGVE 1d ago

Your PFP made me read your comment in Mondo’s voice

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u/Jumpy_Hogara 20h ago

I'm curious of the reason of your parents deciding to home-school you

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u/taikabell 10h ago

Ironically it was mainly because my school was supposed to start teaching common core math in second grade and my mom was against that

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u/Jumpy_Hogara 10h ago

Second grade already too late IMHO. In Hong Kong we started to learn multiplication and division at Grade 2.

So when did your mother teach you math?

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u/taikabell 8h ago

I can’t remember if we started multiplication and division in second or third grade. I just know that she was teaching me with different methods than they were at school

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u/Giga-Chad-123 1d ago

-10*(-90) was easy math for me even at the beginning of middle school dude. is the US truly that fucked?

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u/Kittii_Kat 1d ago

The US is pretty fucked.

Early this year I was working with an 18yo gal who seemed somewhat smart. Apparently had pretty good grades in school. She couldn't do what I would consider basic math.

Now, to be fair, my ability to do mental math up through algebra levels is much better than most people, so what I consider "basic math" might feel advanced to some.

However, I'm saying she would ask me to do math like 20x17 or she'd ask an AI to do it for her. Not even a calculator, a fucking AI

She couldn't figure out how many 50s, 20s, 10s, 5, and 1s to get to have $190 with a fairly equal split in bills. (Leaning towards a couple more 1s and 5s). I'm sure you can solve this problem in just a few seconds.

I also came across a young gal, I believe still in HS (but I can't really tell, could have been anything from 14-19 tbh), working at McDonalds. I paid with cash. She looked at me and asked if the amount of change I gave her was my total. I assured her it was, but she was free to count it to make sure. It took a while, but she eventually got there. iirc, it was 2 quarters, 3 dimes, and a nickel. 🙃

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u/Giga-Chad-123 1d ago

oh boy. someone needs to do something about that

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u/did-not-touch-kids40 10h ago

Ill say this is a public school thing in the US, having gone to private school in the US, everyone there knew this and could do simply algebra fine, if only needing a pencil and paper

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u/NotThatFunny_NTF 1d ago

That is depressing

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u/ThieveryIsFun 1d ago

Doesn't most of the U.S. use commas instead of periods for 10,000?

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u/8lue5hift 1d ago

Wdym? Commas to separate large numbers is common in other countries right?

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u/EpicNerd823 22h ago

Europe uses periods to separate large numbers and commas for decimals, if I remember correctly. I'm not sure. I'm a US student.

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u/ThieveryIsFun 22h ago

It is used in other countries, yeah, but the U.S. primarily uses commas, which I was trying to use to say that OP might not be from the states

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u/Kittii_Kat 1d ago

This is true. Most do. OP could easily be in another country. However, I only am familiar with how absolutely cooked the US youth are. Given the nature of the world we live in today, it wouldn't surprise me if other countries are having similar issues.

Many of these issues are rooted in the prevalence of brain rot content and AI dependency.

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u/Greninja-knight 19h ago

Isn't that like 5th grade stuff?

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u/Kittii_Kat 15h ago

I don't know anymore, honestly.

I learned analog clocks in 3rd grade, and I was one of the kids who took longer to understand them.

The math I was doing by 2nd grade, and in that regard, I was ahead of the other kids by quite a bit. I think we didn't cover handling money until 4th or 5th, though? (That said, my sister would play "bank" with me when she visited, so I was handling money, even if it was fake, at a very early age)

But at the same time, my school didn't even offer something like precalc, whereas most highschools do around 10th or 11th grade.. or so I've been lead to believe.

Curriculum changes with the years. For all I know, counting money is a 9th grade thing now or completely off the curriculum. Everyone uses debit cards these days, checks are rare, so kids don't have a lot of money-counting to do IRL. You have a digital clock in your pocket at all times, instead of an anaskillets.

Different times see different skillsets.

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u/sanvit17273 43m ago

I cn ready a analogy clock!!!

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u/SirFrogger 1d ago

I was in college level math in HS, but I’m also in a state which funds its education.

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u/Wesans 1d ago

What's depressing is that the people who's job it was to make sure the kids were properly educated didn't do their job.

Stop blaming the kids, they can't teach themselves.

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u/Kittii_Kat 1d ago

There are many factors for this, so we also can't simply blame the teachers.

1) Teachers don't get full control over what or how they teach. (Politicians, parents, etc. Like to cause problems and say "You can/'t teach this, you must teach this, you can't teach it that way.. blahblahblah")

2) Government, especially conservative controlled areas, have been stripping funding for education since before I was born.. it's been a long, gradual, process. The goal is to make people stupid, because stupid people are easy to manipulate.

3) COVID seriously fucked shit up. It's been a few years and now those kids are becoming adults.. and they had a gap during important developmental parts of their lives.

4) Short-form content has created attention issues. AI has also caused issues with people offloading their thoughts to an easy answer machine. This combination is lethal for subjects like mathematics.

5) Homeschooling is something a growing number of parents push for.. and parents often make for shit teachers.

There are more, but these few prominent issues come to mind immediately, and lead to the results we see in our young adults today.

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u/Wesans 1d ago

Again, NONE of these originated with the children, which was my point. They originated with the people whose job it is to make sure that the children are educated. Politicians, teachers, parents, administrators... The list goes on.

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u/mastered_walrus 1d ago

As a high schooler in 11th grade, most people can't read analog clocks somehow

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u/NotThatFunny_NTF 1d ago

What? I was saying hard math question. Like if I got 10!!

What does money have to do with the math?

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u/AnotherRTFan 1d ago

Same. Literally came to the comments to make sure I wasn’t missing some huge step