Why Do Americans Stink At Math

Americans hate math because math is stupid.

 

Two and two are four.
Four and four are eight.
Eight and eight are 16.
16 and 16 are 32.
32 and 32 are 64.
64 and 64 are 128.

Meanwhile, Ralph Phillips has visions of the numbers coming to attack him. #obscurereference

 

Yet the metric system is much easier than the inches/pounds/gallons system we use, and we STILL refuse to change.

 

We suck so bad at math we're the only nation that found a way to land on the moon -- six times. That took a few people with a knowledge of math.
Are there really any short-cuts, other than calculators? You can't sugar-coat long division or the times tables.

 

But it was the Germans who got us to the moon!

 

With true American hero asses sitting on top of their rockets.

 

You can thank Wernher von Braun and a host of ex-Nazis for American space superiority.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_rocket_scientists_in_the_United_States

We beat the Soviets to the moon because . . . our Germans were better than their Germans.

 

Americans didn't suck at math when all the work was done to go to the moon. Americans suck at math now.

 

We were ok at the old math. We suck at the new math. Except the computer stuff. And the oil exploration stuff. And the airplane manufacturing stuff. And Sabermetrics. We fuckin' rock at sports math.

 

The cost of being bad at math: