This schoolboy maths fail prompted some hilarious damage control by the cameraman

Poke Staff. Updated April 6th, 2022

Here’s a rather fabulous clip which has gone viral on Reddit for reasons which (we hope) are about to become obvious.

It’s a simple maths equation which doesn’t turn out to be quite that simple, but that’s not why we’re here. Well, it is, but it’s what happens next that made us smile.

And as well as the cameraman’s reaction to the most unfortunate fail, it got people wondering how she could make such a basic error (and what she was trying to show in the first place).

‘The cameraman trying to do some damage control.’
pkpk-_-pkpk

‘Most awkward pan to the left ive ever seen lol’
kendrahawk

‘She did that so quickly and confidently that I was thrown off for like a solid 10 seconds.’
GrassBlade619

“This is mathematics for beginners but it is nothing to be scared about”
Tjozzy33

‘I think she didn’t cross out the five, she changed it to “X”. Then she brain farted and wrote minus 3 because she was too focused on the accidental 5. Got ahead of herself…then rounded back to the beginning lol.’
taoders

‘I think the real point is why are you doing the world’s simplest algebra in front of a TV camera when you can’t do the world’s simplest algebra without fucking it up.’
annie_bean

‘She actually solved it too fast and accidentally wanted to write the result immediately and then messed it up by trying to add mid steps. Or at least that is what it seems like to me.’
PlotTwistsLover

And just in case you were wondering …

‘Everyone’s talking about her bad math skills, but what’s the context, what were they saying? Why did they need a whiteboard to do that calculation?’
wayne0004

‘Yeah, translations would be much appreciated.’
NeighboursCatapult

‘Serbian here, she is basically saying Math isn’t as hard as students make it out to be, and there is some math event this month in Belgrade.’
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Source Reddit u/trisvetlarazlicita