Stupid math question of the day

What is it with people who can’t do long division? This person wants to know what 92/3 is. The ironic thing is that since he used a computer to post this question, pretty much all computers have a calculator…

Stupid math question of the day

Aren’t you supposed to know how to do long division, particularly something simple like 2100/600 without using a calculator by the time you are old enough to go web surfing?

Pet peeve – people who do nothing except badmouth McCain or Obama

I spend a lot of time on the social networking services Twitter and Plurk. I don’t mind people who occasionally talk about McCain vs Obama, but I am getting really annoyed with people who do nothing except badmouth McCain or Obama (mostly McCain.) I am definitely voting for Obama, but this is way too much [...]

Stupid math question of the day

I hope this person is reading ahead of what his class is doing. Otherwise, if the teacher has covered the subject of volume, how could anyone not understand how to calculate the volume of a cube (or for that matter, how to google “volume of cube”)?

Stupid math question of the day

Someone is asking how to solve 6x -2 = 7. As this person has asked 6 similar questions in the last 3 days, this person clearly hasn’t made much of an effort to understand the material.

Explanation on my thinking on “Stupid math questions” posts

I finally really annoyed someone with my post on why students ask so many stupid questions on the Internet. (See today’s comment.) I’m surprised it took this long for someone to be really annoyed by my posts on stupid math questions (though there was someone who was less annoyed than this guy by one of [...]

Stupid math question of the day

Someone is asking how to factor out -50. This is presumably homework, and the topic is factoring numbers. How hard can it be to grasp the concept that factoring out a number means finding breaking it down into prime numbers (which in this case, -50 =  -2*5*5)?

Maybe kids are getting smarter…

It’s been a slow day for blog topics, so I decided to search the Yahoo! Answers Mathematics section for stupid math questions, and I didn’t find any after a few minutes. Maybe there’s hope for kids after all ( or maybe it’s because this is summer vacation…)

Why do students ask so many stupid questions on the Internet?

Why do so many students post simple math homework questions on Yahoo Answers and other forums (similar in difficulty level to the ones that I have posted about in my “Stupid Math Question of the Day” posts)?
In case you are wondering why I only post math questions, it’s because I was a math major, so [...]

Stupid math question of the day

How does someone who knows how to get on the Internet not know how to convert “5 foot 1″ to inches?