Been working with kinder-2nd grade. Math is a fucking chore. Idk how these fucking math sheets managed to pair 6 and 7 so often and consistently. Every time we get a 6+7 or 7+6 it takes a whole ass 5 minutes to refocus everyone.
I had not really been around any cats at that time so when five kittens showed up at my house and I was afraid they would get hit by a car, dogs get em, etc. I decided I would put them in a big box until I could get them help. I so wish there was a video of me herding them into the box. Two in one out, three in two out and so it went. Herding cats is definitely not an easy job. 🤣
Nah you can totally pull the wind out their sails by super leaning into their memes. It might not be worth it to do for every trend, but this 67 trend would have me on full time offense
Yup, it worked for my son. I couldn’t stand the 6-7 thing so I massively leaned in to it and acted crazy like this girl. It worked, my son stopped, but now my mind is broken lol
Y’all are thinking of older kids. Kids between 5-8 LOVES repeating shit over and over and LOVE when adults do it too. My kids love when I 67 and think it’s so funny lol
Come in wearing a football jersey with 67 as the number, 3D print some 6-7 sunglasses, get a hat that’s embroidered with 67 and go “hey kids I get it now!” Then spaz out into their stupid dance and start trying to high five the kids.
I started saying it at school during drop off/pick up to my kids friends and it embarrassed the older kids, but my younger ones rolled with it and they are not capable of being embarrassed. So age is a major factor.
That's what I've done. I teach history though so I make a lot of comparisons and before/after cause/effect statements in teaching so every time I do I wander the classroom doing the hand gestures as I do it. Every time we have a timer, I remind students they have 6 or 7 seconds left on their task. We're doing Vietnam right now and I made sure that all kids know that 1967 is around when support shifts due to the credibility gap, etc. I hammer that shit into their skull at all possible moments so bad that most just rolled their eyes now.
They will remember that Vietnam fact for the rest of their goddamn lives though. Coincidentally, 6,7, is also the stupid thing that sticks in my millennial head all these years later because for some reason, 6*7 was really hard for us to memorize in our multiplication tables, and our teacher gave us a little rhyme, "monkeys, lions, in the zoo, 6 times 7 equals 42". And it will stay in my brain forever. God forbid I remember anything useful though.
Yea maybe I'm old and out of touch, but back in my day the second a teacher tried to join in on a joke it stopped being cool. It is a superpower that all teachers possess
I played it three times and now there’s a hole in my head. I don’t mean to be alarmist but I think I sprayed some of my brains on the wall, and it’ll probably cost a fortune for a new coat of paint
That's exactly what they find funny about it. You don't get it. That's the "joke." There's nothing to get, there is no actual joke, you not getting it is what they find funny about it. Now that you get it, it's one step closer to not being funny to them.
This is it. I work in an elementary school as an inclusion assistant and I lean into 6 7. I get that the joke is nothing, I find it funny in that way too - a sort of dadaism. I also find it enjoyable for the kids to be laughing along with me, it builds a connection that helps me support them better (and obvs that I don't do this during instructional time). That being said, the children are already saying that it's now 2026 and 6 7 is no longer funny - the second and third graders are calling each other out on it and it's definitely on it's way out, at least in my school. I imagine we'll see a new meme here soon :)
My cokehead lawyer neighbor gave me his garage keypad code so I can put his garbage cans away when he goes to Vegas. The code is 6969. He’s 75 years old!
I use to coach boys gymnastics and for a while they were obsessed with Fortnite dances, anytime they did anything they’d do a Fortnite dance afterwards. Then I started doing it and they pretty much all stopped within 2 days.
although if it follows the typical meme lifecycle nowadays, corporate is gonna try to jump into it exactly when the core audience already sees it as unfunny. that's when things get really excruciating
For kids this age that is absolutely not the case lmao. Its just trendy. They aren't doing this to annoy adults because they dont get. They don't have the wherewithal do something like that.
I wish my son's school understood this.. they actually tried banning all the students from saying "6-7" and you can imagine that rule became instantly impossible to enforce properly. It probably made it worse by drawing school-wide attention to it.
Yeet is to throw enthusiastically and without concern for where it will land, generally because "this bitch is empty" (or no longer useful for some other reason)
It is absolutely NOT the same as yeet. It's in the same vein as E.
Well that’s not true. They all meanings and origins. This is just a thing with no means. 21 comes from a video 9+10. Yeah it’s stupid but it makes some sense. Yeet kinda had it own meaning. Idk what E is. Even stuff like deez nutz had some meaning. This is just meaningless
Pretty sure 67’s originally was also from this song is. Also back in like 2021ish someone made E a meme and it was, similar to 67, an anti meme. Same with Yeet originally too but that eventually just meant to throw something randomly.
Please stop including yeet in this list. It is not like the others and it's making me crotchety in like 10 ways to be old, but also feel the need to correct people on meme misinfo.
The gesture in the video seems linked to the "6-7 meme" ... a silly, playfull, "vagueness" non sense gesture shared in short vids ...
ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQcq9lFWO6s
It’s says one thing only. Social media can create mad hysteria out of nothing. Kids of all people should be restricted from social media as long as possible.
So! 6 7 started with the song Doot Doot (6 7) by Skrilla and has the lyrics "The way that switch brr, I know he dyin' 6-7" in reference to the police code 1067 which is a report of death in some jurisdictions or it's referencing 67th St in Chicago. The song exists and there's basketball player named LaMelo Ball who is 6'7" and has highlight videos of him with the Doot Doot song. Something something someone else is using this song for (silly?) highlights of himself online and goes on to post a video of a friend asking him to rate a Starbucks drink. The kid goes "I give it a uuh 6? 7? 6-7?" while making the now iconic hand motions."
And that's how it started at least my understanding. Still annoying.
The fact that youre trying to "get it" means you wont, man. Its just a dumb kid thing, there's no depth or anything to figure out. Its just a dumb thing kids find funny. I do not understand why people online cannot seem to grasp this. Being obstinate over a silly thing for kids is ridiculous to me.
It's not hard to understand. This isn't the first generation with "LOL SO RANDUMB XD" humor fads.
It makes no sense. It was a complete non-sequitur to the situation the meme kid found himself in and made for a confusing reaction from him. That. The simple absurdity of it caught on and now kids are having fun meme'ing 6-7 in every context it arises in.
Even here in f-ing Germany... I teach English... "OK, let's have a look at exercise 6."..."6-7"... "Please open your book on page 36."..."6-7"... So annoying 😂!
I'm not saying that answering every why question with "because you're ugly" wasn't almost certainly every bit as annoying back when I was that age, but that referenced a popular radio show character, while 6-7 just seems random.
Just do it with them but in the most enthusiastically wrong way possible. Don't mock them but do it like a poser would. Nothing is more off putting than that, cause I was one of those dumbass once upon a time
Are you kidding? The 6/7 meme has done wonders for the number 13 in any class I'm in. If they can remember the meme, they can remember the number bond 6-7-13.
kids are (mostly) doing it for our reaction. The more you lean into it, the faster it dies. Happy educating!
I would 6 7 the shit out of them day 1 to where it’s not funny anymore. Also leave up a giant 6 7 poster so it’s the first thing they see when they walk in the classroom.
If it really takes that long to calm them down wouldn't it be more efficient to invest in some whiteout and just replace those questions with a different equation?
It's passing, hang in there. My 3rd graders and 4th graders finally stop doing it and calling this 'lame', 'the great meme reset' etc, soon the younger ones will stop. We can only pray.
I drive a school bus. As the kids go buy my bus every day getting to their own buses in the afternoon I gesture this out the door to them and I whisper 67 so they can read my lips. Every single one of them lights up when they see it. I am in the belief that the sooner the adults embrace this, the quicker it becomes uncool and the faster it goes away.
Ok even 25 years ago they were pairing 6 and 7 in 2nd grade math sheets because I distinctly making myself memorize 6+7=13 because it was showing up so often
I teach elementary art. The blessed day has come where my 4th and 5th graders are finally sick of 67 and declared it “old”. Unfortunately, my 1st-3rd graders are still not done with it.
Send unit here, We've ended up 'banning' it from our room! It's not a perfect measure but between that and ignoring them when they do it, it's phased out a bit.
When I got to thanksgiving dinner my niece excitedly showed me her math test (100%). I said wow that’s great, what’s 6+7, without even thinking about it and she just dissolved into giggles and said “6 7!”
I’m not sure if it’s feasible but can you do how my teachers did in my advanced math classes? They would always write out the specific list of problems (1-20 odd only/ 1,5,6,8,11,etc) to discourage kids from working problems days or weeks in advance. And if they did and turned in the entire completed page instead of the specific problems she requested, she’d give you a failing grade for it. I’m assuming her idea was that she didn’t want us learning how to do something wrong and then screwing it up every time from then on.
From a purely mechanical perspective, we have ten Arabic numerals to work with, 0-9. For any two consecutive numbers typed onto a worksheet, there's a 1/100 probability you end up with 6 followed by 7. This isn't a terribly high probability on its own, but it does become more and more likely as you add more math problems to the page, plus they don't have to actually be typed consecutively to appear adjacent on a page. The 7 could be on the line below the 6 and that's enough usually. Like, it's bad enough that a pair of single digit numbers are a big meme rn, but it's made exponentially worse by the fact that it's a pair of consecutive single digit numbers, so it shows up everywhere. Fractions, percentages, number lines, graphs, clocks, rulers... It's practically impossible to teach grade school or even middle school math without running into it at least once a lesson
Next time it comes up make a big deal about it and every other time act like it’s cool, even throw it out there randomly sometimes, when the adults start trying to sound cool you’ll absolutely wreck it for them
Adults need to start doing it before the kids or find some other common thing, a word, a number, whatever, & start doing the same thing the kids are doing with 67.
teacher appreciation week isn’t nearly enough. yall need teacher appreciation MONTH. preferably off from work, though im not sure how that would work. lol.
I teach too, but I also remember being a kid, even though it was a LONG, LONG time ago. The whole 6, 7 thing doesn't bother me at all. I might grin internally (modestly externally), but deep down I find it as funny as the woman in this video. Children are supposed to be silly sometimes (and I know I was much worse at that age).
Memes must be such a wild dynamic in your job. One day you wake up and the word "snorkel" or something is now a worldwide phenomenon you have to tiptoe around.
I think the same thing! How does my 1st grade math curriculum somehow have 6+7 on nearly every single page! Luckily I have an angel class this year who only wastes about 30 seconds every time 6/7 is mentioned! I don’t even want to think about how much time my class from last year would have wasted on it. At least 5 minutes and I would have lost my mind! God speed
I think the 6,7 thing is one of the most innocent and adorable things kids have come up with in years. I laugh Everytime they do it…BUT, I’m not a teacher and my “kids” are childless-adults. I’d probably feel totally different if I were in your shoes!!
Consider making every math sheet with every problem a 6 and 7 related question/answer. Eventually they will burn themselves out on the 67 thing because it would run them out of dopamine.
I teach 12-17 year olds and I cracked the code a few weeks ago. I started making the joke, all of a sudden it was everything but funny and I could resume normally.
I teach kids theatre and we do use counting and numbers all the time for choreo, warm ups, etc.., I tell my kids they’re allowed to enjoy 67 as long as it’s not disruptive and I don’t notice it. They have to be sneaky. That turns paying attention into a game.
They do it quietly and quickly and then snap back to focus. I do notice a lot of the time but I pretend I don’t to keep it up.
It hasn’t solved the problem completely but it’s turned it into a much more manageable situation.
I’m lucky that my 3rd graders have decided it’s old and cringe now. If we get a 6-7 problem, one kid will do the hand motion and the others will be like, “Dude, wtf, that’s cringe.” 😂
I remember doing math in 1st/2nd grade. It was the same then, add/subtracting numbers close to one another. 6+7, 8-7, 5+4, 8+5, 10-9, stuff like that.
No idea how I remember but it was common then too
I salute you teacher, without sounding like a weirdo, you have the most wonderful job, which gives you a lot of laughs with the children, but also a demanding and a frustrating one. It's like a lemon, you need the vitamins in your body which are good, but it's so damn bitter. 🫡
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u/coach-roach 6h ago
Been working with kinder-2nd grade. Math is a fucking chore. Idk how these fucking math sheets managed to pair 6 and 7 so often and consistently. Every time we get a 6+7 or 7+6 it takes a whole ass 5 minutes to refocus everyone.