- Hi, I'm Madison and I'm a senior in high school.
- I'm Vanessa and I'm a preschool teacher.
- Hi, my name's Ted, I'm a creative writing teacher.
- I'm Ricardo, I'm a senior.
- We'll be doing a teens versus teachers
take the same math quiz.
- Probably gonna fail.
(upbeat piano and string music)
I used to be pretty decent at it in high school.
I got into a calculus class my senior year
but then I decided that since I didn't need it
I would drop the class.
- I would probably give myself a D plus in math.
- I'd give myself a B at math.
- My best math is probably geometry
because I have, like, an artist's mind
so, like, shapes are kind of my thing.
- Geometry with like shapes and stuff like that,
I'm like just can't do it, it's mentally challenging on me.
- You know, passing a math class in general
is just an accomplishment in itself.
- Right!
- If I can, like, get a C, and like even a D, I'll be happy.
- I'm pretty good at long division.
Hopefully I pass.
- You ready? - Ready.
- I'm ready. - Say your prayers.
- Let's do it.
- [Vanessa] All right.
- Question number one: solve for x.
Square root of 45 minus 4x equals 5.
Oh, okay!
- Hold on, I think...
- Um, okay, so, oh wait!
Oh, okay, no, I got this, okay.
- I don't even know where to start with this (beep).
- X equals five, I'm going to circle that.
You know I used to get in trouble
for not showing my work all the time
and I'm not going to do it.
Deal with it.
- She's already smoking me over here.
- No I'm not!
I'm so nervous right now.
There's so much pressure
- Let's see what I am confident with.
The length of the rectangle is 10 feet less
than double the width.
The perimeter of the rectangle is 64 feet.
What is the area of this rectangle?
- So blank of the rectangle...
- What the (beep) is perimeter.
I don't know any of this.
- There's a formula for this,
like area equals length times width.
- [Madison] Yeah!
- Is that right?
- How are you doing?
Are you doing good?
- Who knows?
- What is coordinate of the point of the slope
of the line if M equals...
(laughing)
Where did you guys get these questions?
- Ooh, slopes, I'm looking forward to that.
- I remember doing slope
and I remember not doing well with them, so.
- My goal is to get at least one right.
- I was like, "Oh, it's slope, I know slope, rise over run"
and then I realized I have to put the coordinates
into the slope.
How do I do that?
Mx plus B.
What does that mean again?
- You guys, this is really hard.
That's how I feel too.
- Hold on, I'm actually doing kind of okay on this one.
I think got the general idea of this one.
- He pays 60 percent of the bill,
so 60 over 100 and 25 more than Jane.
Nope.
All of the formulas I remember are failing right now.
- I like this one it just says x equals
when there's no words on it whatsoever.
That's fun.
We'll see.
- X equals, my favorite question.
- X equals what?
Figure it out.
- This is literally so embarrassing.
- I am, like, wanting to tap out.
But I'm not, I'm not going to tap out yet.
I swear I used to know how to do this.
- F of x equals 2x squared minus 5x.
Evaluate F of negative three.
Is this real math?
(laughing)
- So x minus three over two equals x plus nine over five.
Oh, I can do this!
Okay, and then I have two equations
that I have to use, so this will be plus 15, plus 15.
- [Ted] X equals twenty...
- I'm tapping out, tapping out.
- [Madison] Eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13.
We're doing something...
- I'm doing doing, she's doing something.
I'm doing nothing.
- No, you're doing great.
- I'm just writing.
- I wanna say $25 and then put a sad face
next to it because I'm pretty sure that's incorrect.
- I'm never coming back to BuzzFeed
if they ever make me do this again.
- God, it'd be be so much easier
if they indicated if these are right angles
or not but they're probably not right angles.
I said I was good at geometry, I'm a fraud!
- Here comes that long division, everybody.
You might want to get a close up on this.
- Your strong suit.
You will thrive for long division.
(laughing)
- So one...
- I'm just kidding. (laughing)
- I mean like at this point we should just work together.
- I'm going to say six, nine.
69.
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- [Producer] How many total did you get right, Madison?
- Two.
- Big fat zero. (laughing)
- This still isn't an accomplishment.
- Hey, it's better than me.
- How many did I even get right?
I think I just got like two right.
- You got one. Two?
Well that one was off by like two.
- Well I got x equals 26, so that's wrong, wrong.
- Give that to him, that's like one and a half, you know.
- Yeah, it's close enough, counts right?
I'm going to say I got two right.
- I though there'd be simpler questions, honestly.
These were pretty tough.
I do not want to try this again.
- [Producer] Look, what did we learn here today?
- Not much.
- Nothing at all, I don't know why I did this.
- I don't know.
I'm glad I did this with you though.
I feel like if I did this with another teen
or, God forbid, a math teacher,
I feel like we could relate to each other more.
- I'm glad I did this with you
because you're dumb with math. (laughing)
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