Yang botched it by chaining = wrong.
100 − 10 = 90 + 9 = 99
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100 − 10 = 90
90 + 9 = 99
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this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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Don't they teach math in the US anymore? Or do you get a pass on basic subjects if you are on the football team?
No they definitely teach math but unfortunately math is kind of useless when they don't teach critical thinking.
Because then people blind themselves with their own bias and refuse to actually critically think about what they're reading and realize that they misread it or misunderstood it.
Goddamn I'm glad I was in Gifted
These people have no fucking clue what they missed
I was lucky to go to relatively good public schools and do some extra classes as well. It’s unfortunate that a good education is locked behind being wealthy enough to live in a good area and additional instruction outside of school, sometimes. This is one of the things that shows that people are not on a level playing field in the US.
It’s so getting worse too as we continue to defund public education so parents are forced to send their kids to private school, or worse, home school them.
It's a problem non-white Americans have been talking about for a real long time now. If only we could leverage the Department of Edu- oh
Tis why they got rid of it, eh.
Practice is important. People definitely learn this level of math, but not using it for years dulls the senses. On top of that, lots of people scrape through school doing the bare minimum. (Not always their fault of course. Not everyone has ample opportunity to excel in school due to a variety of things.) From what I hear, the bar for graduating high school is not incredibly high, so people like this don’t surprise me.
Knowing basic math (and sometimes a bit more) is quite useful in life. I am currently having a beef with my bank who tried to cheat me out of a larger sum. But I know the correct methods and the correct rates, and, of course, the contract. And obviously, it really pisses them off that someone even does the calculations...
You get a pass on pretty much every subject because the school's interested in churning out worker drones rather than thinkers. Do this long enough and you get Trump supporters.
Heck, for a while, we insisted on passing kids no matter what so they weren’t “left behind”.
They teach math from like 6th grade up as if every middle schooler in the land is going to grow up to be a sweater wearing chalkboard writing mathematician when they grow up. It's taught as a series of arbitrary rules to follow. Here's some squiggles, and now you do this to the squiggles. NO you don't do that to the squiggles, do you want to be a ditch digger you fucking waste of sperm. You do THIS to the squiggles. Can't you FUCKING tell the difference you little cuntpuke? You use the Crendicative property of intiplicity. No, it's not five, it's negative three. It's obviously negative three, What idiot would get five? I know you got five and not some other number because this is designed to be a trick question. There's only one point in this big long procedure that matters, if you decide correctly you get negative three, if you decide incorrectly you get five. And you got five.
They do this to you for your entire adolescence.
So you're bad at maths and extremely bitter about it. Ok.
I actually learned math in physics class. Because in physics class, the equations mean something. They represent a relationship between things that you can grasp. There are built-in sniff tests. You can go "Wait, the ball rolled off the table and then...started moving toward the ceiling? That's not right, where did I...Oh I subtracted a negative number, I should have added a negative number."
From Kindergarten up to about middle school, they teach by practical example. "You have two apples, and you buy two more, you have four apples." "If you have two pizzas, each cut into 8 slices, you eat 5 slices from one and 6 slices from another, how many pizzas do you have left?" That stopped entirely in middle school to be replaced with "Here are abstract rules to apply to abstract numbers, and instead of explaining why here are paragraphs of "proofs" written in a logic system we won't teach you anything about and therefore mean nothing to you, memorize it verbatim so you can write it on the test."
Yeah I'm not compatible with math class as I've seen it taught. I can do math when it means something. Arbitrary meaningless bullshit busywork full of gotchas? Nah, I'm not doing it.
My third grade teacher told me that negative numbers didn't exist because having less than zero is impossible. I think I'm justified in being bitter about my education.
Yeah you're right that they act like everyone's gonna be a pure mathematician with only abstract applications. I think test standards have kinda fucked with their expectations. I'm sorry you had bad math teachers. Many of them suck at explaining the subject and act like dicks. Get enough of them in school and it's easy to lose interest in something that's extremely practical to know later in life.
No, they don't.
Yeah he totally cooked Yang. That guy has NO IDEA where the 9 came from.
TBF Yang really did write the equation in the sloppiest way possible.
Like I know what he MEANS but no math professor in the world would let this shit slide.
Yeah if you put it:
100 - (100 x 0,1) = 90
90 + (90 x 0,1) = 99
It comes quite obvious. And I know the brackets are redundant, but my coder mind forces brackets to all math formulas for readability.
Was it on purpose, maybe.
Even
100 - 10% = 90
90 + 10% = 99
Works better than what he did, because that’s how you’d enter it on a standard calculator.
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Decimal commas ain't 'merican: you'd totally throw them with your weird euro math.
I think of it as
100 x 0.9 = 90
90 x 1.1 = 99
Am I the odd one out?
Percentages for show, decimals for a pro
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Some bureaucrats in Mexico City tried this years ago.
An important ring road had two lanes in each direction. To increase its capacity, they didn't actually widen the road; they just repainted the lane markings to turn two lanes into three, and claimed a 50% capacity increase!
Everyone immediately screamed about being crammed together just centimetres apart, accidents increased and the city officials quickly u-turned; they repainted to have just 2 lanes in each direction again.
But they then tried to claim that as that was a 33% decrease, and that because they had earlier increased it 50%, that meant they had achieved a net 17% increase in the road's capacity!
Both sides are right in a way. It just depends on what you're comparing the +/-10% to
This is clearly about the US stock market crashing. In that case it's always the days gain/loss, in which case Yang is the only person who is right.
This is important because a lot of people saw "down 10%" and now "up 10%" without realizing that's still day over day loss.
While the idea put forward by him is correct, stating that 100-10=90+9=99 is just entirely incorrect, hence why I'm saying they're both somewhat correct
Percent increase/decrease is change/original.
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I might as well throw the same comment in here. You learn this pretty quickly when you bet on meme stocks. Down 90% then up 100% I can assure you, you are no where near where you started.
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I thought this was c/funny not c/deeplyconcerning
You want concerning....talk to teachers about gen alpha. They can't read well, their grammar sucks, they can't use PC's, they're super gullible and believe/want to purchase whatever online influencers tell them to, and just believe whatever pops up at the top of their search result or AI says.
I am not convinced Alpha is unique in their gulliblity and think we should all be hesitant to believe anything we hear online about how bad 'the youths' are.
I'm a couple generations back. Every generation seems to talk crap on the next, but these kids are different.
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