So then he says that it “sounds like a lot of work” and then say “oh, but we can just look it up on the internet” and I said “HELL NO, DO THE MATH!” And he said “no it’s the weekend” and we are at a FUCKING IMPASS.
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Well - in our house it would have been (1) count the nerds, or (2) estimate the nerds using math, or (3) some chore (probably involving ... math :) ). No play time unless obe if these 3 were satisfied :)
may 25, 2025, 7:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Impasse*
may 26, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
So now he’s all, “I’m just gonna look it up” and I’m like “no you’re not” and now he’s in the bathroom and this will be my last text because I’m about to TURN THE FUCKING INTERNET OFF until he does the fucking math!!
may 25, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1,105 13 • view
Playing the long game
may 25, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I think we both know it isn’t about the math at this point though.
may 25, 2025, 7:32 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s the journey, not the destination
may 25, 2025, 8:32 pm • 0 0 • view
😂 Hang in there, Dad.... you're fighting the good fight… compromise: Tell him he can look it up AFTER he does the math
may 25, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
You're fighting the good fight, man.
may 25, 2025, 7:18 pm • 2 0 • view
🤣
may 25, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Good Dad.
may 25, 2025, 7:22 pm • 1 0 • view
katherine just got mad at me for trying to explain how when it took 3 seconds too long after SHE ASKED HOW
may 25, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
This all could have been avoided if you had a snickers
may 25, 2025, 7:44 pm • 8 0 • view
Math problems are fun, unless you’re counting calories and realize you ate 10 servings because you didn’t check the label.
may 25, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Mom Lecture: How does he do in Math in school? Can he count the Nerds by twos or threes? Also, some kids have trouble with Math and Math Anxiety, and some with Executive Function. And things can go bad at the point things get too complicated. Often 3rd grade.
may 25, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
And now.....I'm invested!
may 25, 2025, 7:21 pm • 4 0 • view
Yea, you're my kind of dad!
may 26, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
Guess how many nerds you are going to get in your next box! 0.
may 25, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
The bathroom is a good place for plotting his next move...be prepared
may 25, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Let me know how it turns out for you.
may 25, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I hear you! Good luck, but I don’t see any valid reason to assume he’ll reason. Sorry :)
may 25, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Owning the Internet Kill Switch is a parental superpower. It is even better if you know how to cut off just the kids’ devices.
may 25, 2025, 7:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Threatening to take away electronic devices was the only way I could get my teenager to do the stuff he didn’t want to do. Threats of grounding don’t work anymore because they have the internet and can hang in their rooms for days
may 26, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 1 • view
I did the same. It is just the modern equivalent of grounding.
may 26, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep! The threat was very effective, and I’ve got a really great kid (humble brag), so I only had to actually take away devices maybe twice(?).
may 27, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Dude...choose your battles! 🤣
may 25, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
i'm sorry, you punished your child for advocating for himself and not wanting to participate in an entirely unneccesary experiment because YOU wanted to do it? get the fuck out. that's shit parenting, and you're a shit parent for thinking it's acceptable.
may 26, 2025, 4:24 pm • 4 1 • view
My father was like this. Unfortunately, I got no help from my teachers, but his help felt like more punishment. I never did learn much math….good luck!
may 25, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Internet back on. I won. I got his 12yo brother involved when he asked why the internet wasn’t working. Our calculations revealed about 14,500 could be in the box and, taking away visible empty space, the actual number is closer to 10,500. But only did pie to 3 places, 12yo noted. :)
may 25, 2025, 7:53 pm • 689 10 • view
That number seems…high
may 25, 2025, 7:54 pm • 16 0 • view
I probably under guessed the radius of the thing
may 25, 2025, 8:00 pm • 3 0 • view
You’re a lawyer, not a mathematician, so understandable!
may 25, 2025, 8:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Depends on the box size.
may 25, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
There are different sized Nerds boxes, though I don’t think I’ve seen one THAT big
may 25, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Now, ask them to extrapolate how many Nerds could fit in the cargo hold of a C130 (and if the plane could accommodate the weight) Did my HS Geometry teacher ask us to do this with ping pong balls? Yes, yes he did
may 25, 2025, 7:56 pm • 7 0 • view
It was my HS physics teacher, but yes.
may 25, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
As a high school math teacher, I commend your work, sir!
may 25, 2025, 7:55 pm • 4 0 • view
Epic!!!!!😂😊😂😊 Go MATH!!!!😊
may 25, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Pi. It’s a Greek letter. Not pie. I wouldn’t normally make a big deal of it but you sound like the kind of person who thinks they’re cleverer and better than others (including your children) and wields power as a weapon so a little humility is always handy.
may 26, 2025, 7:07 pm • 3 0 • view
So you're very, very dumb
may 29, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
What if you weighed one of them on a digital scale then looked at servings and multiple that number?
may 25, 2025, 7:55 pm • 6 0 • view
That's what I was thinking, but they're all different sizes. So you'd want a few random samples. 3-4 sets of ten should do it...
may 25, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
You're right! Good point.
may 25, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd weigh 20
may 25, 2025, 8:10 pm • 3 0 • view
🤣
may 25, 2025, 7:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Shortcut: I bet my 7yo $5 vs all his candy I could guess how many nerds in the box. When he disputed my answer, I said, "since we can't confirm, you can't prove me wrong, so I win." He said, "well YOU count it then." I said, "Of course. I'm happy you trust me so much."
may 26, 2025, 4:46 am • 0 0 • view
He mathed it. Then counted, just to make sure.
may 26, 2025, 4:46 am • 0 0 • view
Damn good work here Dad.
may 25, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Math wars are my favorite
may 25, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Wait. How big was this nerd box? My internet says 36 in a box. What about weighing the box with and without nerds, subtracting the weight of the box, then weigh one nerd and dividing that into the total nerd weight?
may 25, 2025, 8:21 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s entirely possible I did the math wrong by the way. I was working with a fucking full sized tape measure to guesstimate the circumference of the oblong Nerd I was pretending was a sphere. But, like, the actual answer was so BEYOND point. :)
may 25, 2025, 7:59 pm • 530 5 • view
Weigh one Nerd. Weigh all Nerds. Divide.
may 25, 2025, 8:15 pm • 4 0 • view
my guy it's "entirely possible" in the same way it's "entirely possible" that the sun is big. you were so aggressively wrong and tried to get everyone to do math that you yourself did not fucking understand to prove a point and then bragged about it.
may 26, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
probably close enough if you were just using a tape measure. And that makes only 3 significant digits of Pi fine.
may 25, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
(assume a spherical cow) 😂🤣🏆🏆
may 25, 2025, 8:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Did you include the packing fraction? (If you throw spheres into a box, they'll only take up about 70% of the volume).
may 25, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Wife: There’s no way that’s right. Me: Kids. Earmuffs! Me: Go FUCK yourself. Wife: You underestimated the radius. Me: Again, FUCK OFF Kids: Can we listen again Wife: Yes. It was a VERY GOOD experiment by Daddy.
may 25, 2025, 8:14 pm • 634 12 • view
Hells yea for peer reviews! Everybody gets to do science!
may 26, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
So basically you ruined your kids day to teach a lesson about math, which you then used to get laughably wrong results, and as a result you verbally berated your wife in front of your child. Congrats man.
may 26, 2025, 6:38 pm • 17 0 • view
pass the 🍿 please 🙂
may 25, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
may 26, 2025, 8:50 pm • 3 0 • view
You’re a fuckin weirdo dude
may 26, 2025, 2:08 pm • 8 0 • view
I'm gonna be real, lots of dudes are gonna be getting your ass for this thread but what I got out of this is that you gotta be thanking your lucky stars for your wife every day. That woman is going to keep you out of trouble!
may 26, 2025, 3:53 am • 2 0 • view
Like, unfortunately you might have gotten yourself into some trouble with this thread and I think the best takeaway from it might be "How much trouble like this could I have gotten into if my wife wasn't there to go 'We're not doing that'" Go give her a kiss and say thank you.
may 26, 2025, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
instead he told her to go fuck herself
may 26, 2025, 4:28 pm • 12 0 • view
Hey you know this is an unhinged thing to post right? I mean all of it is but if my spouse told me to fuck off over something this stupid and meant it...
may 26, 2025, 4:27 pm • 12 0 • view
Nerd(s)!
may 25, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
That sound like the time my dad was trying to calculate the center of gravity of the flagpole he built. He didn't listen to me either😏
may 25, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
🤣🤣
may 25, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Would you mind sharing your location? Based on your social media posts, it’s possible that your children are living in an emotionally and mentally abusive environment.
may 26, 2025, 4:06 am • 15 0 • view
You deserve to have the skin slapped off your face for talking to your wife like that
may 26, 2025, 3:28 pm • 13 0 • view
She should be filing for divorce and custody if that's how you treat her for something as minor as this
may 26, 2025, 6:38 pm • 9 0 • view
Her *updated* calculations land at 232, based on a more accurate guesstimation of the radius of a Nerd. BUT SHE USED THE SAME MATHEMATICAL PROCESS SO, AGAIN, MY POINT STANDS
may 25, 2025, 8:15 pm • 621 6 • view
My dad used to take me to lunch after early monday hebrew school on sundays (which I hated but that's another story) and we would go to the diner and I would have a hamburger deluxe and he would ask me questions like how much ketchup Americans eat every day - we would talk about it/figure it out ;)
may 25, 2025, 8:19 pm • 3 0 • view
This story was like the total inverse of Bean Dad
may 25, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I respect the math but you could have counted them by now 🫡
may 25, 2025, 8:17 pm • 88 0 • view
It’s not the total answer but the problem solving exercise.
may 25, 2025, 8:23 pm • 6 0 • view
Yes but if you don’t peg it to some empirical evidence the chance of your answer being so far off it’s useless or downright counterproductive is high. Count one box.
may 25, 2025, 8:49 pm • 6 0 • view
What about trying to figure it out mathematically first and then verifying it with an actual count? One of the reasons have a nightmare in the whitehouse is that people stopped thinking. People can’t even make change anymore. If the computer goes down they freeze.
may 25, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I never said not to. I said you should calibrate your math-based estimate to the real world before you trust it too much.
may 25, 2025, 10:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I'd weigh 10 of them (grams), divide by 10 and then weigh all of them and divide by the weight from step 1.
may 25, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd count a half teaspoon of them and see what the volume of the box contents was.
may 25, 2025, 8:17 pm • 9 0 • view
Weight my guy. Weight.
may 25, 2025, 8:34 pm • 5 0 • view
Did you work out the error bars, or is that next week?
may 25, 2025, 8:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Idk your process but this is basically a “sphere packing” problem—look it up on Wikipedia. The avg amount of space in a box filled with a random jumble of spheres is about 63.5% full due to gaps. 10k seems high but 232 seems way too low so I’m gonna try out a lil math here.
may 26, 2025, 5:52 am • 1 0 • view
Walmart’s site says a 5oz box is 6”x3.4”x0.65”. I don’t have any nerds on hand so I’m gonna guess that an avg nerd is about 5mm diameter. Which gives a volume of 4/3*π*2.5^3 =65.45 mm^3 If I convert the box to mm (1 in ~= 25.4mm) it’s 152.4x86.36x16.51 mm for a total volume of about 217,292.47 mm^3
may 26, 2025, 5:52 am • 0 0 • view
If I divide the volume of the box by the volume of a nerd, it could fit a theoretical max of 3319.98 nerds. But due to gaps from the sphere packing problem, I only really should use 63.5% of that. And 3319.98 * 0.635 =2,108.187 nerds. Which tbh seems way more reasonable a guess to me.
may 26, 2025, 5:52 am • 1 0 • view
But again, I don’t actually know how big a single nerd usually is. I just looked at a ruler and guessed lol. Combine with the wildly varying sizes and shapes of individual nerds there’s prob a huge margin of error here. Without knowing the actual avg size + std dev it’s hard to say how much tho.
may 26, 2025, 5:52 am • 2 0 • view
Remember that packages are never filled all the way full upon receipt because of settling and the risk of spilling on manufacturing lines. So measuring the volume of the box itself is pointless.
may 26, 2025, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Agree; we would need a plus-or-minus amount to account for the wildly different sizes
may 27, 2025, 12:33 am • 1 0 • view
I once used trigonometry to estimate the height of a tree in a forest with 2 kids. We had to guesstimate the angle where the imaginary hypotheneuse met the ground and then get the tan of that angle but our calculation of approx 100 ft was close to our initial visual guess. Fun times 😂
may 25, 2025, 9:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Um, Mr. Mystal, can you please go to the head of the class and show us your work? 14,500?!?!
may 25, 2025, 8:58 pm • 2 0 • view
You came up with over 10,000 and you’re defending the process?
may 26, 2025, 10:35 am • 4 0 • view
Did you cross-check by weight? Asking for a geek. 🤓
may 25, 2025, 8:19 pm • 1 0 • view
What the fuck kind of scales are you people rolling with that are accurate to the degree of a Nerd or even a countable handful of them??? I have the kind of scales that are good for measuring “will you have to pay extra at the airport for this bag?”
may 25, 2025, 8:55 pm • 489 8 • view
Look the coffee ratio is 7g coffee to 4oz water for most methods. You want sub-ounce accuracy if you're making individual servings. Please ignore the other lab equipment around the kitchen.
may 25, 2025, 10:12 pm • 3 1 • view
Sounds like it would have been easier and more accurate to just count them
may 26, 2025, 6:32 pm • 99 0 • view
Definitely. You could do it just in the time it takes to write this thread then navigate the replies destroying you.
may 26, 2025, 11:20 pm • 13 0 • view
Do they have a serving size and servings per container?
may 26, 2025, 6:28 am • 4 0 • view
nerds are irregular ovoids, and any single circumference measurement you take w/a ruler will be bad: use a piece of string/thread. same with the weight, even with a baking scale. an easy way to reduce error is to measure volume instead. tape it up and fill it with mineral oil to get the air volume.
may 25, 2025, 9:14 pm • 10 0 • view
Of course, being American you cook with all cups and sticks and suchlike, don't you. Hence the bemusement
may 25, 2025, 9:08 pm • 1 0 • view
My normal kitchen scan is accurate to 1g. If you need to go to thousandth of a gram those start around 400 (but 700 or so for somethingdecent). There ARE some culinary things you would want that accurate but mostly that's for, uh, other needs :)
may 26, 2025, 12:29 am • 5 0 • view
What other needs? 🙃
may 26, 2025, 1:23 am • 0 0 • view
Chemical and medicinal.
may 26, 2025, 2:26 am • 4 0 • view
they have scales for very small objects on amazon for like 20 bucks. which is way cheaper than the therapy you're kids will need and the divorce lawyer YOU will need
may 26, 2025, 10:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Food scales, you dumbass. They're for measuring ingredients
may 26, 2025, 7:22 pm • 2 0 • view
@thelouvreof.bsky.social
may 26, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
A great thread 😂
may 25, 2025, 8:58 pm • 2 0 • view
If your a fan of abusive parenting
may 26, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Many kitchen scales are within a gram and having worked in consumer, those things are probably pretty consistent in weight so they don’t give the stuff away.
may 25, 2025, 8:59 pm • 5 0 • view
A coffee/tea scale. Kitchen scales for baking may display to the tenth of a gram, but they're not that accurate, they don't need to be. 5g vs. 5.5g of Gyokuro makes a difference. I'd still weigh 10 or 20 candies together for better accuracy, then all of them in case net weight is off.
may 26, 2025, 3:11 pm • 17 0 • view
also mass-weigh because Nerds are notoriously nonuniform (as opposed to something like m&ms which are much more consistent)
may 27, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Your right, average weight is the better method. Trying to figure the volume of an oblong blob and then try to estimate packing factors, plus the fact that the box probably isn't full to begin with, isn't a good method.
may 26, 2025, 3:18 pm • 10 0 • view
This is the type of shit that gets you put in an elderly home as soon as possible.
may 26, 2025, 6:47 pm • 8 0 • view
Sounds like your wife has a better sense of scale. 😊 Another method: weigh around 10 nerds. Then weigh all of them. Use the average weight of a nerd to guess the entire amount.
may 25, 2025, 11:37 pm • 11 0 • view
To be honest, this is a very neat math problem. It can lead to an interesting discussion of how stuff can be packed.
may 25, 2025, 11:37 pm • 4 0 • view
Kitchen scales for cooking, go as low as 1 gram (1/28th of an ounce), some even lower
may 25, 2025, 8:59 pm • 5 0 • view
I'm an old school pencil drafter. I can guesstimate a Nerd radius better than most people can measure it. IJS...
may 26, 2025, 12:38 am • 1 0 • view
according to a box, one serving is a tablespoon. count the number of nerds in a teaspoon, multiply by 3 then multiply by number of servings in a box.
may 25, 2025, 9:35 pm • 4 0 • view
Digital Scales are great for tiny mass weight. Maine goes down to milligrams of course not everyone has one of those.
may 26, 2025, 12:22 am • 1 0 • view
Or a triple beam. Don't ask me how I know that... 😉
may 26, 2025, 12:39 am • 3 0 • view
Oh I have one of those too. But they are super expensive. That's why I mentioned the digital one you get one for 15 bucks online.
may 26, 2025, 12:51 am • 2 0 • view
Have you never heard of a a scale?
may 26, 2025, 4:33 am • 0 0 • view
You need the proper tools to do what you want to do.
may 26, 2025, 11:26 am • 12 0 • view
Honestly this sounds like one of my mother-in-law's "guess how many beans are in the jar" Christmas contests.
may 25, 2025, 9:04 pm • 0 0 • view
And yes she counts every effing bean.
may 25, 2025, 9:08 pm • 3 0 • view
He used the scale he got for his last science project which was calorimetry of various household snacks. It was $9 and purportedly accurate to 1/100 gram.
may 26, 2025, 4:51 am • 0 0 • view
I absolutely live that this exercise has brought out the "fucks" from you. To me, these kind of "fucks" are always a sign that I'm dying something that regardless of the outcome had personal meaning. It's the journey, not the destination. Again, great parenting on this one.
may 25, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
My brain is exploding!
may 25, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 0 • view
For guesstimate purposes, a kitchen scale is fine. Measure 0.1 oz of Nerds, count that, then multiply by the needed numbers to hit the started box weight. If you really want to get closer, do it three times with random Nerds in the 0.1 oz, average the counts, and then multiply.
may 25, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
😂😂
may 29, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
When my son was in 4th-6th grade, I used to regularly change his Windows password without telling him. I’d just leave him a password hint like “the F# major chord”. This annoyed him greatly, but he did learn a lot about music theory. 🙂
may 27, 2025, 12:27 am • 2 0 • view
Kid is now ready to pass the McKinsey interview.
may 25, 2025, 10:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Fascinating thread by @elienyc.bsky.social now if someone could tell me what a nerd is.
may 25, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I have this one for tea: awscales.com/dia20-high-p...
may 25, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
The kind that are good for measuring "if you ingest more than 10 milligrams of this, you will *wish* you were dead."
may 25, 2025, 9:49 pm • 1 0 • view
You know what kind Elie lol
may 25, 2025, 9:07 pm • 1 0 • view
A man without a proper scale should reconsider his powers of estimation. 😂
may 26, 2025, 3:59 am • 1 0 • view
Get a good scale (see below). Weigh what’s in the whole box. Count the number of Nerds in like 5 grams. Do that three times with different samples. (You can eat each sample after you’re done.) Divide the average of these by 5 then multiply by the weight from step one. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000...
may 26, 2025, 12:58 am • 4 0 • view
Gun powder reloading scale
may 25, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1 0 • view
youtu.be/Y-hQf-F3hyU Scrooge McDuck gold coins
may 25, 2025, 10:15 pm • 3 0 • view
I learn something new here every day. I had no idea there were boxes of Nerds
may 26, 2025, 12:04 am • 0 0 • view
🤣
may 25, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
😂 literally a kitchen scale
may 25, 2025, 8:59 pm • 5 0 • view
You sound like a fucking crazy person btw
may 26, 2025, 5:20 pm • 18 0 • view
A standard kitchen scale for baking.
may 25, 2025, 9:30 pm • 2 0 • view
So you'll shut off the Internet so your kid can't look something up to prove a point, but won't use it yourself to learn that fucking kitchen scales exist?
may 26, 2025, 4:03 am • 15 0 • view
You just need to count out like 20 of them and weigh them on a digital kitchen scale. 1/20th is the average weight of a nerd, and then you divide the weight on the box by the average nerd to find out how many are in there.
may 26, 2025, 2:16 am • 68 1 • view
No kitchen scale? No problem! Count how many nerds fit in a 5-10 ml measure (something you can tell is flat, not a teaspoon, a medicine dispensing cup or spoon would work). Then same thing, divide volume by number, then measure volume of the whole packet and divide.
may 26, 2025, 2:21 am • 35 1 • view
Nerd!
may 26, 2025, 3:37 am • 1 0 • view
Well, yes.
may 26, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
My youngest child is somehow doing well in math even though I would be completely incapable of coming up with either of these methods. Maybe not incapable—but it would not occur to me. This is a brilliant way to teach a kid math.
may 26, 2025, 6:14 am • 2 0 • view
No kitchen scale is a big problem.
may 26, 2025, 3:03 am • 19 0 • view
At a pinch, you could use a shot glass and a measuring cup. But I think by the time you’re at 30ml you’ll have to count quite a lot of nerds.
may 26, 2025, 3:32 am • 2 0 • view
OMG - I love everything about this post! Parenting is exhausting and done with care it's so worth it! I would love to hear your kids' memories of this experience in 10 yrs!
may 25, 2025, 9:02 pm • 4 0 • view
He won't have any language by then
may 25, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Cooks and drug dealers have good scales.
may 25, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Baking scales! They are amazing.
may 25, 2025, 8:59 pm • 3 0 • view
i would have weighed a sample and extrapolated to the box weight.
may 26, 2025, 7:15 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m fairly confused. I don’t know the size of the box but were you serious when you said there could be 10k?
may 25, 2025, 11:48 pm • 1 0 • view
A kitchen scale, for baking.
may 25, 2025, 8:57 pm • 147 0 • view
How do you measure an unladen swallow with a kitchen scale? 😜
may 25, 2025, 11:53 pm • 24 0 • view
African or European?
may 26, 2025, 1:25 am • 11 0 • view
Not sure. 😜
may 26, 2025, 1:35 am • 2 0 • view
Does it float?
may 26, 2025, 4:00 am • 0 0 • view
Came here to say this. :-) I used to work in epidemiology (not a scientist, but worked with a bunch) and this is a teachable moment about how to count things. Now you've got me wanting to buy a Costco 18 pack of Kraft M&C and spend the weekend trying to calculate how many noodles are in a box. ❤️
may 25, 2025, 9:10 pm • 9 0 • view
(5 boxes to start with to calculate weight of box and weight of cheese packet, weigh 20 noodles each maybe five times etc etc) 🤓
may 25, 2025, 9:11 pm • 2 0 • view
"Not a scientist" indeed! I don't believe you!
may 26, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
This! My kitchen scale will measure down to hundredths of a carat. Put 20 Nerds in there. Write down the weight. Take those out and put in a different 20. Do that one more time, then avg the three weights. Divide by 20. Divide the advertised weight on the box by this number. They're still doing math
may 26, 2025, 2:48 am • 7 0 • view
Hold on, you can't use the weight on the box because that's not necessarily accurate at all. That's the number where if they give you less you can yell at them about it - you could have substantially more in there. Weigh the full box, then pour it all out and weigh the empty box to get the tare.
may 26, 2025, 4:24 pm • 2 0 • view
This is the correct way. Especially when dealing with irregular objects in a volume. The weight is the only good quantity because the volume is based on how they fit together.
may 26, 2025, 6:21 am • 4 0 • view
And knitting
may 25, 2025, 11:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Would been my immediate
may 25, 2025, 9:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I think we all know exactly what kind of scales.
may 25, 2025, 9:02 pm • 4 0 • view
Serious science scales.
may 26, 2025, 2:56 am • 1 0 • view
Coffee…
may 26, 2025, 2:10 am • 2 0 • view
So you're completely incompetent is what you're saying?
may 26, 2025, 4:56 am • 2 0 • view
Weigh up to 500g with 0.01g accuracy, for nine bucks: a.co/d/ff1qCYF
may 25, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
…a kitchen scale… I call it “weight loss math” or “baking math,” depending on the day and my mood
may 25, 2025, 11:37 pm • 2 0 • view
I know the point is not about the math, but I kinda want to see the math you and your wife used. 😅
may 25, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Nerds are all different sizes. The most accurate calculation would be by weight.
may 25, 2025, 9:09 pm • 3 0 • view
There are 9 servings in a 5 ounce box. One serving is 0.56 ounce. Measure one serving and count them then multiply by 9.
may 25, 2025, 8:58 pm • 15 0 • view
This was exactly my thought. BUT ALSO. That could teach the kids that you'd then be depending on previous measurements by someone else instead of doing SCIENCE from the ground up. 😄
may 25, 2025, 9:08 pm • 7 0 • view
using a scale, or ruler, or whatever measure you had in mind is ALSO "depending on previous measurements by someone else"
may 27, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
That's realistic science. Most science builds off other science.
may 26, 2025, 5:45 am • 4 0 • view
But it's not science, it's capitalism what they put on the box. Ya gonna trust them, or verify?
may 26, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure, but kids have to learn what science is, how it works, and how to do it well themselves. Provide good data for others to use and how to judge whether someone else's work is useable in turn.
may 26, 2025, 9:10 am • 1 0 • view
One can weigh them all, count them, get an average mass/nerd. Find the average volume per nerd, and you can get mean density, and then you can do all sorts of nerd-involved equations lol
may 26, 2025, 8:05 am • 12 0 • view
oh my god I finally got why they called them that
may 26, 2025, 8:24 am • 21 1 • view
😂😂
may 29, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
Need to measure small amounts of white powder by grams. Baking, of course!
may 26, 2025, 5:18 pm • 2 0 • view
You need an analytical balance. The kind meant for laboratory use weighing milligrams of things, where it has like a casing around it cause literal air could mess you up. I think a kitchen or postage scale might also work acceptably, though.
may 25, 2025, 9:18 pm • 4 0 • view
But seriously, someone with access to an analytical balance needs to see this thread, and run with it. Any chemists reading this?
may 25, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I think drug dealers would probably also have appropriate scales for this task.
may 25, 2025, 9:21 pm • 4 0 • view
Aww show your sd baker followers some love @elienyc.bsky.social bc we r feeling properly chastised 😆
may 25, 2025, 9:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Something like this would've worked. You wouldn't have to do an individual nerd, maybe 10 and then divide.
may 25, 2025, 9:01 pm • 9 0 • view
That was my first thought also but OP said she didn't have an accurate enough scale for a "countable number of Nerds" which leaves me very much wondering How Big Is a Nerd? (I'm not familiar with Nerds).
may 25, 2025, 10:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Thank you
may 26, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Your life is much better off not being familiar with those kind of Nerds.
may 25, 2025, 11:01 pm • 2 0 • view
you took a teachable moment and turned it into a power trip Congratulations, you're now Bean Dad 2, but I don't think you're gonna have a fascist coup happen within 24 hours to make people forget who you are
may 26, 2025, 7:15 pm • 12 1 • view
Unfortunately Nerds vary in size unlike gumballs or M&MS but this will give you a good estimate: youtu.be/PdIjTZi3iPg?...
may 25, 2025, 8:17 pm • 5 0 • view
I hate to bring this up but you probably could have counted them by now, especially with three people working on it.
may 25, 2025, 9:18 pm • 6 1 • view
How can any self-respecting social scientist say that? Brute force may be quicker, but developing a complicated, reusable method (that you will never actually reuse) is divine.
may 25, 2025, 9:20 pm • 5 0 • view
Counting is also complicated and reusable. I mean, I went to law school because counting was so challenging.
may 25, 2025, 10:04 pm • 3 0 • view
Description is the first model.
may 25, 2025, 9:22 pm • 2 0 • view
... this is serial killer behavior
may 26, 2025, 7:18 pm • 1 0 • view
NGL, I was expecting her to use an average weight. Best Sunday post.
may 25, 2025, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Better idea: weigh the full box. measure out 20 nerds and weigh them. Empty the box and subtract its weight. Take the remaining weight and calculate based on the knowledge of the random 20 nerds’ weight.
may 25, 2025, 8:22 pm • 28 0 • view
This is the way.
may 25, 2025, 8:23 pm • 9 0 • view
Worked for Avogadro.
may 25, 2025, 8:35 pm • 4 0 • view
Weigh ten. Record result. Weigh another ten. Record. Last ten. Record. Average across those three, and proceed.
may 25, 2025, 8:37 pm • 4 0 • view
How’s that different than just taking 30 and dividing by 30?
may 25, 2025, 8:47 pm • 2 0 • view
More sciencier!
may 25, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
But the math is the same and more…efficient?
may 25, 2025, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Came here to say this
may 25, 2025, 10:58 pm • 1 0 • view
You're measuring the individual Nerds?! They vary in size, which threatens to throw your whole methodology off. I propose a different approach: Measure the depth of Nerds in the box Identify some easily measurable factor of that depth Pour out and count that depth of Nerds Multiply times factor
may 25, 2025, 9:32 pm • 1 0 • view
TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE
may 26, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Ask not the radius of a nerd lest thee be ready to take measure of thy own girth…
may 25, 2025, 8:25 pm • 4 0 • view
No partial credit. If you were doing rocket science you'd have accidentally killed the state of Florida
may 26, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Your house sounds so exciting.
may 25, 2025, 8:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Having once turned in $83 in rolled pennies, I would say any number under 1000 is absolutely countable. I would have approached it as a piece count problem with my digital scale. Count 10 samples of 2 grams…
may 25, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Now this is reality TV I could actually watch 😂
may 25, 2025, 8:45 pm • 3 0 • view
I love this story but I was legitimately worried that it would end with the kid gobbling all the nerds before they could be measured let alone counted.
may 25, 2025, 8:46 pm • 5 0 • view
Wife is demonstrating the difference between intelligent and smart
may 25, 2025, 8:35 pm • 5 0 • view
Both are intelligent to do volumetric calculations, the smart one knows 10,000 ain’t it
may 25, 2025, 8:42 pm • 9 0 • view
Really hoping it’s not this box of nerds www.beulahscandyland.com/strawberry-a...
may 25, 2025, 9:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I did the same experiment with fat free yogurt
may 25, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Growing up with a scientist father I learned to never ask questions if I wanted an afternoon free of math. Though I would have weighed a filled box, an empty box and a single nerd. (filled-empty)/single
may 25, 2025, 8:20 pm • 19 0 • view
a single AVERAGE nerd. for weight, not displacement? ok, now we gotta submerge nerds OH NO NERD WATER
may 25, 2025, 8:28 pm • 8 0 • view
Would need to figure out a way to keep the nerd from dissolving. Something less friendly to sugarZ
may 25, 2025, 8:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Thinking about things around the house... Rubbing alcohol would be better than water. Or if you have one of the higher percent ethanols, that would be better since it would have less water. 🙂 Or an oil. Like coconut oil maybe?
may 25, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Every youths must learn about density and buoyancy
may 25, 2025, 9:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Wouldn’t it be easier to weigh a box and then count out the amount in a small fraction of that weight, and multiply to get the total? (E.g., if it’s a 400 gram box, weigh out 40 grams and count them, then multiply by 10?)
may 25, 2025, 8:31 pm • 59 0 • view
That's what I assumed they were going to do, I was pretty surprised to discover volume was the chosen method.
may 25, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
"You know, there's a pretty easy and obvious way to do this." "Ah, but what if we did it the harder, less-accurate way." "...this is also acceptable.
may 25, 2025, 8:39 pm • 3 0 • view
YES
may 25, 2025, 8:32 pm • 27 0 • view
This is very much 1994 Microsoft interview question territory.
may 25, 2025, 8:36 pm • 10 0 • view
Thank you. I was like, radius? What is this, the 1700s?
may 25, 2025, 8:35 pm • 6 0 • view
Not unlike how I used to calculate how many words were in a manuscript when I didn't have a Word file.
may 25, 2025, 8:56 pm • 19 0 • view
I had to do this on my ConLaw final. The UI gave us a character count but not a word count. 🙃
may 25, 2025, 10:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Figure out how much 40 words weigh….
may 25, 2025, 9:09 pm • 3 0 • view
I tried doing that once; sadly, my words had no weight at all.
may 25, 2025, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
(Roughly, of course. Words are not Nerds.)
may 25, 2025, 8:57 pm • 25 0 • view
Though they are often produced by them
may 25, 2025, 9:05 pm • 25 0 • view
The only higher math thing I can do is cross-multiply.
may 25, 2025, 9:10 pm • 5 0 • view
The best way. Maybe 1 gram. But not everyone’s parent is a drug dealer or a chemist. And they contain some element with negative mass: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinte...
may 25, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
The very thought of this gives me a headache
may 25, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
sounds closer
may 25, 2025, 8:16 pm • 2 0 • view
He asked how many Nerds were in the box, not how many could fit. There could still be math involved but your exercise did not answer the question presented. 😜
may 25, 2025, 8:45 pm • 3 0 • view
How many nerds does it take to count nerds
may 25, 2025, 8:25 pm • 10 0 • view
It's gonna be awesome when this is brought up in the custody hearing
may 26, 2025, 9:03 pm • 6 0 • view
If any of this really happened, please apologize to your family and maybe talk to a therapist.
may 26, 2025, 3:21 pm • 9 0 • view
I hope your wife leaves you & she takes the kids
may 26, 2025, 6:21 pm • 5 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣🤣
may 25, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
This story makes you sound like a total douchebag. Why haven't you been ratioed?
may 26, 2025, 7:17 pm • 4 0 • view
how regularly do you tell the mother of your children to go fuck herself for challenging your bad math
may 26, 2025, 5:11 pm • 13 0 • view
Why would you speak to your wife like that?
may 26, 2025, 4:32 am • 22 0 • view
Or think it was a good idea to tell the world he talks to her like that
may 26, 2025, 7:26 pm • 2 0 • view
what the fuck is wrong with you man
may 26, 2025, 10:05 pm • 6 0 • view
I really hope this is a case of tone not coming through text very well because what the fuck man
may 26, 2025, 5:33 am • 9 0 • view
lol
may 25, 2025, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
it’s wild for you to be this aggressive to someone who is trying to correctly help you during your weird “teachable moment” tirade. and then you went and published it for the world to read. wild series of decisions. go tell your wife you’re sorry
may 26, 2025, 4:27 pm • 18 0 • view
Man what a funny story where you cursed out your wife in front of your child for trying to help you. Funny stuff man.
may 26, 2025, 6:50 pm • 11 0 • view
Surely going by mass would be a quicker and more accurate way of calucating than by volume, especially once you factor in settling and etc? Measure the mass of 10-20 nerds, and then compare that to the mass of the pack?
may 26, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Doesn’t it tell you how many in a serving and then how many servings in the container?
may 25, 2025, 8:09 pm • 9 0 • view
Lies! What need does he have for your woman logic! 🤪
may 26, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Nutrition Math! 😂
may 26, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
This definitely has Man Refuses To Use GPS Gets Lost in Woods energy lmao Man: THE INTERNET STAYS OFF UNTIL THE MORALE IMPROVES Every Woman on the Internet: can’t you just use the nutritional info?? 🤔
may 26, 2025, 4:31 pm • 4 0 • view
You don't have a scale?
may 25, 2025, 8:09 pm • 5 0 • view
This story would make a brilliant short film!
may 25, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Since they (and most solid foods are sold by weight and not volume, I’d have poured them onto a plate, mixed them around, and spooned about 5% of the weight’s worth (use a scale) and counted how many in that 5%, then X 20. A plate and not a bowl, as small ones go to the bottom of the bowl.
may 25, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view
If 5% is too small for your scale, measure out a larger portion, note its weight, count it out, and multiply the count up accordingly.
may 25, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I was about to ask if you had calipers and how many you measured…..
may 25, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Sounds like an old form of voter suppression.
may 25, 2025, 8:01 pm • 3 0 • view
I'd say don't let Stephen Miller hear about this, but there's no way he's looking at the Elie Mystal thread on Bluesky. He'd start burning up like we spritzed him with holy water.
may 25, 2025, 8:08 pm • 4 0 • view
OK, actually answer beyond the point. Fine. But isn’t it a lot easier to look at nutrition panel and take (servings per container) and multiply that by (pieces per serving)?
may 25, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Nerds are small enough that they don’t label the pieces per serving, but the servings per package. Weight would be more accurate than volume, but a standard kitchen scale is not accurate to the gram, IME, so may be just as bad. Get an analytical balance, though…
may 25, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
You are just the best parent. Also I love how things start back up bc the 12 y.o. was “hey the internet is down”
may 25, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
You could have weighed a known number of them and then divided that into the net weight on the package.
may 25, 2025, 8:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I would have just counted the nerds rather than use a bad estimation technique that nobody would trust.
may 26, 2025, 2:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Actually, you could have had a closer number if you calculated by weight of each Nerd and averaged it out based on total weight of bag
may 25, 2025, 8:05 pm • 9 0 • view
There are 9 servings in a 5 ounce box 0.56 ounces. Weigh out 0.56 ounces and count them
may 25, 2025, 8:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Professor voice starts playing in my head: “assume a spherical Nerd…”
may 26, 2025, 2:59 am • 1 0 • view
Well done. Solid parenting right here.
may 25, 2025, 8:02 pm • 8 0 • view
Sarcasm, right? Did you drop the "/s"?
may 26, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
If they melt together you could end up with one giant nerd
may 26, 2025, 4:25 am • 1 0 • view
Oh there’s one giant nerd here all right
may 26, 2025, 4:43 am • 5 0 • view
You've probably scarred him for life.
may 25, 2025, 7:55 pm • 2 0 • view
amazing learning your parents have no idea what their talking about moment for the kids
may 26, 2025, 11:06 am • 8 0 • view
As a dad I deeply appreciate your determination, but as a human who has eaten many boxes of nerds I look on this number and go "nah you're gonna need to start over" 😂
may 25, 2025, 9:07 pm • 6 0 • view
How are you this wrong this loudly
may 26, 2025, 1:04 pm • 11 0 • view
Oh neat, bluesky has its own bean dad
may 26, 2025, 5:08 pm • 6 0 • view
NerdsDad 😭
may 26, 2025, 6:52 pm • 3 0 • view
I've heard pi to 4 places will get you to the moon and back
may 25, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
That is not good math
may 26, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
If you see how many nerds fit in a 1 inch cube - then just multiply that # of nerds by the total area that’s filled in the box.
may 25, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
LMFAOOO
may 26, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I have vicarious trauma from reading about bad control over freaking math on a weekend, instead of good control positive support teaching.
may 25, 2025, 7:56 pm • 8 0 • view
This went off the rails with the 10,000 nerds estimate. The rest of it — turning off the internet, whatever.
may 26, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Did you run a statistical check using weight? 10g of Nerds is N candies, full box weighs W grams, so it contains N * W / 10 total candies. It's repeatable (and you can eat the 10g test samples after counting them).
may 25, 2025, 7:58 pm • 5 0 • view
That’s how I would’ve approached it, using the total weight provided on the box. If calorie section includes # candies per serving, that variable could be used in calculation to determine total as well.
may 25, 2025, 8:08 pm • 3 0 • view
My suggestion: Count out a reasonable number of them and weigh them on a kitchen scale. Then look on the box to see what the total weight is. Then do a little math.
may 25, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
If this isn't a story of an afternoon well spent, I don't what is.
may 25, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
You didn't even dump out the fucking candy?! You're trying to estimate this shit from outside of the box? Also you're a shitty parent in general
may 26, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
This is high-larious because it involves neither me nor my kid.
may 25, 2025, 7:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Isn’t this how Bean Dad happened? 🤣
may 25, 2025, 7:23 pm • 1 0 • view
😆🤣
may 29, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
Just wait until he hits double digits. You're in for at least a decade of unresolved challenges.
may 25, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
As the parent to an almost 9yo, I'm absolutely kicking my feet and giggling because this is the most accurate thread of what it's like to live with a small human that is increasingly capable of independent, rational thought, but not actually
may 25, 2025, 7:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Refreshing parenting
may 25, 2025, 7:21 pm • 0 0 • view
🤣
may 25, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
See you in 2026!
may 25, 2025, 7:17 pm • 15 0 • view
That poor child won't ask another question for days! 🤣🤣🤣
may 25, 2025, 7:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Move over War and Peace . The Napoleonic wars got nothing on this drama... I want to know how many nerds are in that box now.
may 25, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
How were there no nerd jokes in all this talk about Nerd math? (8 engineering degrees in our family and we totally would've)
may 25, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view
This is how I won a big jar of candy at school. This is a life lesson and *real* math. Not trains and planes and arbitrary bullshit.
may 25, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
WiFi down!
may 25, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Modern Family!
may 25, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m dying. 😂 #TeamElie
may 25, 2025, 7:19 pm • 4 0 • view
So I guess I’m the only one who had to look up what Nerds are 🙁
may 25, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes 🤭
may 25, 2025, 7:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Isn't this gonna fall apart once you need to do FFXIV weeklies? Good luck! 🫡
may 25, 2025, 7:23 pm • 1 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣 That's hilarious. I hope you win.
may 25, 2025, 7:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Cannot stop laughing. I needed this today. 🤣
may 25, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
😅😅😅✌️
may 25, 2025, 7:43 pm • 2 0 • view
An easier way to do the math is is get a sense for how many are in a gram (more for more accuracy) and scale up. Much less work, still get them to do the math and learn a useful skill
may 25, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
😂
may 25, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
😂
may 25, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Hold your ground.
may 25, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Let him look it up AND make him count them out. You know Google/AI will get it wrong. Two lessons learned.
may 25, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
(Ex-mathematician here.)
may 25, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
That kid is like
may 25, 2025, 7:23 pm • 2 0 • view
You’re a good dad.
may 25, 2025, 7:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Love, a librarian. (The second worse parent to have after a lawyer :-)
may 25, 2025, 7:20 pm • 1 0 • view
While he’s in the bathroom, flood the internet with bullshit guesses about how many nerds are in a box so when he gets to look it up (at some public spot) on the INTERNET you can let him know that the internet is GARBAGE info (and teach him it’s an AVERAGE of garbage info, which makes it even worse
may 25, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view
🤭🤣
may 25, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
The SCOTUS won't listen to reason. You expect a nine year old to?
may 25, 2025, 7:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Get his ass!
may 25, 2025, 7:19 pm • 4 0 • view
😭😭😭😭😂 my husband, retired middle school science teacher, applauds you. ( he does the same with our grandkids)
may 25, 2025, 7:19 pm • 4 0 • view
Yikes
may 26, 2025, 4:12 am • 0 0 • view
Have him do what we used to do with jars of marbles and get the mass or volume of one marble then the useable volume of the container.
may 25, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Next he'll ask how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie roll pop?
may 25, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
😂😂
may 29, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
Change the wi-fi password to the answer of the math problem and suddenly "it's the weekend" won't be a barrier to figuring things out :P
may 25, 2025, 7:17 pm • 4 0 • view
This is Jedi-level parenting
may 25, 2025, 7:21 pm • 2 0 • view
I love you guys.
may 25, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Weekend or not, 9yo laid the challenge, they have to do the math.
may 25, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
😂😂😂😂😂
may 26, 2025, 3:57 am • 0 0 • view
Team 9-year-old here. No math on a holiday weekend. As the parent of an inquisitive 8-year-old, I am deeply sorry that I cannot support you on this endeavor but godspeed, math warrior dad!
may 25, 2025, 7:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Tell him that when he grows up the people who can't do math will be the slaves of those who can.
may 25, 2025, 7:19 pm • 0 0 • view
“It’s the weekend” is a pretty good line for a nine year old. But good for teaching them the math!
may 25, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
You know how to outsmart a criminal you have to think like a criminal? You need to think like a kid. Take the box of Nerds, upend the box & eat it all in one go, then say "there were 'n' Nerds in the box", and whatever he says in response you just say "that's what my mouth told me, prove me wrong".
may 25, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Holiday weekend too...
may 25, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Search Labs | AI Overview Learn more A 1.65 oz box of NERDS candy contains approximately 36 NERDS. The boxes are typically divided into two compartments, each containing a different flavor. A larger 2-pound box may contain around 70-76 NERDS, according to Amazon.com.
may 25, 2025, 7:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Now you two go outside and play...
may 25, 2025, 7:20 pm • 1 0 • view
How about, if his guess is closer then yours, he gets an ice cream, but he has to do the math to show it.
may 25, 2025, 7:19 pm • 0 0 • view
may 25, 2025, 7:16 pm • 2 0 • view
You beat me by 45 seconds 😁
may 25, 2025, 7:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Hang in there, Daddy-o...😂👏😂👏 Parenting is hard, yes indeedy. One Love 💚🦋🌿
may 25, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view