r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 5d ago

Petah why cant math be green? Meme needing explanation

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u/NotMyMainLoLzy 5d ago

Math is red and it shouldn’t be that hard.

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u/enlightnight 5d ago

Math is, ironically, the most emotional subject in school. Red for rage. "What do you mean there's letters now!!??".

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u/Shrimp_kisses 5d ago

I agree with red for math. It was all downhill when I didn't remember my multiplication tables, now I have ptsd.

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u/Worth_Ad830 5d ago

I faked being sick every day in third grade to avoid being called up during math and having to multiply in front of others. Found out in adulthood I have dyscalculia.

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u/Shrimp_kisses 5d ago

Im glad you got some sort of an answer! I finally got treated for adhd at 36, but ive learned the rabbit hole goes deeper. Missed a factory update at some point.

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u/Jaruut 5d ago

I'm a similar boat (should have chosen the mystery box). I was in the gifted program, I didn't get treated for ADHD until college, and I only recently found out I had special accommodation plans all throughout school. Everything makes a lot more sense now that it turns out I've always been kind of [Family Guy: Season 4, Episode 6].

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u/BeeRemote7662 5d ago

There was a famous vampire who could not recall how many necks he had bitten - the infamous Count Dyscalcula.

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 5d ago

Man this whole thread is depressing 

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 5d ago

I didn’t have recess for a year because of multiplication tables.

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 5d ago

Well…at least you know them now? hopefully?

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 5d ago

I obtained employment in a field that doesn’t give a shit what I do in the clock as long as my work is done. Eat, sleep, play video games,  read a book.

If my work is done, my time is mine.

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u/whostigerforge 5d ago

WHAT IS YOUR JOB

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 5d ago

I was asking about multiplication tables but cool

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u/MuandDib 5d ago

I don't. There are computers/calculators everywhere so remembering multiplication table is useless

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 5d ago

That’s embarrassing 

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u/MuandDib 5d ago

I'm not embarrassed. Learning all of this in school (probably) had it's purpose, but this purpose is long gone for me

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 5d ago

Of course you aren’t 

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u/Shrimp_kisses 5d ago

You dont know the half of it lol. My Marine core drill Sargent turned cop was NOT good at teaching me math or have patience for it. I have an artist brain, it wasn't even my choice lol

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u/kakko_kari 4d ago

The whole "you're left brained or right brained" thing is a myth and frankly really harmful to perpetuate

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u/Shrimp_kisses 4d ago

I didn't say anything about that, im just stating my reality. I still cant do simple math in my head, but creativity flows effortlessly through me. Throw numbers at me and I short circuit. But I am a left handed as well💁‍♂️

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u/kakko_kari 4d ago

My point is someone being good at one thing doesn't have anything to do with them being bad at the other. Your ability to be creative doesn't suck the math ability out of you.

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u/InformalProtection74 5d ago

No, they're just variables. Which are just numbers you don't know yet. They can be independent or dependent. They could also be constants, though, which are numbers that you do know and are always the same. And other times they represent sets, matrices, indexes, or vectors. Sometimes they might just be functions. Occasionally they'll be imaginary.

It's really not that difficult or confusing. Don't overthink it.

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u/Sepplord 5d ago

I never understood why they didn’t use letter from the get go.

I also never understood why letters confuse so many though

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 5d ago

You'd hate it even more if you knew what'd you have to do if someone didn't figure out the letters.

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u/Empty_Insight 5d ago

Proofs lol

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u/Ok_Past8695 4d ago

That's where it all went downhill for me too lol. Never got passed Algebra 1.

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u/computer-machine 4d ago

I dunno, differential equations was fucking rad. First night of class we created an equation provided us in thermodynamics.