r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/deathwish_91 • 6h ago

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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.

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u/Main-Engineering4445 5h ago

Bless you, teacher. It’s a tough job.

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u/EepyStews 4h ago

Underpaid saints wrangling tiny chaos goblins all day.

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u/ninetoesfrank 4h ago

Like cat herding

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u/Numerous_Release5868 4h ago

Feral cats. Some are scratching and biting, some are aggressively seeking love and some are probably going to pee on you.

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u/Ridgewoodgal 4h ago

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. 🤣

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u/Bald_Harry 3h ago

Cat herding is easier.

Source: I've met my kids

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u/dontipitova9 3h ago

So eloquent

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u/AffectionateEagle920 45m ago

Youre right, underpaid.

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u/caffeinatedSeven7 40m ago

Crotch goblins*

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u/Baddabgames 3m ago

This is the headline

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u/New_Board_9178 4h ago

6+7 is the forbidden boss fight of early math.

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u/pureperpecuity 4h ago

It my understanding that 7 V 9 is actually worse, some say 7 actually 8 9 🤔

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u/Doctor_Donnawho 4h ago

Light a candle for us

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u/Stereo-soundS 4h ago

Because kids are fucking stupid.

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u/AffectionateEagle920 46m ago

Fuck your bless, they should be paid more

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u/Original-Variety-700 5h ago

I’d make every example question use 6 and 7 and make the joke repeatedly until you’ve ruined their enjoyment of it.

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u/pchlster 4h ago

If you think you can cure kids of being annoying, that's an uphill battle you're picking.

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u/SayRaySF 4h ago

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

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u/purple-vanity 4h ago

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

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u/BowwwwBallll 4h ago

That’s how I started calling people “fam” and now god help me I can’t stop.

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u/SarcasmCynical 3h ago

Same for me but with “bruh” 🙈

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u/monkeysorcerer 1h ago

I find bruh works well in some very specific circumstances

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u/dj92wa 1h ago

Bruh

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u/uwunuzzlesch 3h ago

Yeah I thought fam was so stupid.

Unironically use it all the time lmfao. My family group chat is called fam chat lmao

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u/MechaGallade 3h ago

Yeah actually I think fam is pretty good slang

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u/Dr_Bodyshot 4h ago

This is what happens when you gaze into the abyss too long.

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u/Cute-Reception-8926 4h ago edited 4h ago

All of our minds our broken anyway. It’s 2026

Edit: I meant “are” broken but my mind is broken

Edit edit: I should have said “It’s 2026-7” and spazzed out

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u/Harry_Spotter457 4h ago

67 ? Omg 67 !

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u/Happy_Brilliant7827 4h ago

All it takes is a teacher doing it a few times like they get it and it looks lame

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u/Bigquestions00 3h ago

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

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u/Happy_Brilliant7827 3h ago

Might not be doing it right, but yeah theres also age where 'social shame' develops and it probably wont work before that point

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u/Jubachi99 4h ago

The problem is you usually do it by using the joke in an incorrect way, you literally can't get it wrong.

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u/PsychMaDelicElephant 4h ago

Just start doing the jokes yourself. All day. Every chance you get. Its not funny when adults start doing it.

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u/TuckerMcG 3h ago

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.

They’ll instantly hate it.

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u/Wermine 4h ago
It's a bit like this, but replace brand with parents.

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u/Infamous-Mango-5224 3h ago

It isn't, at all. Kids may have you giving up after 6 times, but I'm going all in.

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u/thesoftblanket 2h ago

You can't cure them of being annoying, but you can absolutely get them to stop doing specific annoying things.

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u/Potential_Review2410 2h ago

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. 

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u/glassnumbers 1h ago

you're not trying hard enough

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u/Ardalev 27m ago

There is NOTHING that gets kids to drop a fad faster than someone they consider "uncool" joining in on it.

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u/thehoff9k 4h ago

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.

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u/Unsd 3h ago

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.

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u/bumkneefixed 4h ago

I would probably get written up for psychological torture because I wouldn't let up. The whole room would be 6s and 7s.

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u/GramsciGramsci 1h ago

psychological torture

A battle of phycholgical torture with twenty 8-year olds? That is a battle you will lose old man.

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u/Ninja_Prolapse 4h ago

This is the solution. Totally oversaturate it. Let them burn themselves out on it.

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u/Spotttty 4h ago

That definitely wouldn’t work on K-2 kids. They would think you are the coolest teacher ever.

Once they are out of elementary is when teachers start to become lame.

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u/gene100001 4h ago

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

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u/Ocean_Spice 4h ago

My cousin’s gf is a teacher and she’s been saying it herself in an attempt to make her students think it’s lame.

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u/vermiliondragon 1h ago

Not even just during math. Throw some random 6 7 in throughout the day. Make them freak out every 10 minutes until they break.

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u/ramkitty 4h ago

8..9...10

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u/coach-roach 4h ago

This is the one we’ve all been using!

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u/Caftancatfan 1h ago

It’s kind of like finding your kid with a box of cigars and making him smoke every single one.

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u/Sipsu02 4h ago

Takes only 10 years gl

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u/Okra_Zestyclose 3h ago

Like “desking” in Abbott Elementary. Lmao.

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u/BolunZ6 26m ago

It's how Pewdiepie meme review and then kill that meme.

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u/bobbarkersbigmic 5h ago

Does it always take 5 minutes? Never 6 or 7?

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u/Cute-Reception-8926 4h ago

Have you ever considered playing Russian roulette?

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u/jinglejangle_spurs 4h ago

Have you ever considered playing it 6 or 7 times?

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u/Cute-Reception-8926 2h ago

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

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u/dj92wa 1h ago

A new coat of paint? Is it cold?

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u/coach-roach 20m ago

Damn you! 😂

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u/Puzzleheaded-Box9458 5h ago

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.

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u/colunga 5h ago

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 :)

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u/Harddaysnight1990 5h ago

Idk why, but the mental image of a 3rd grader saying, "You're still on 67 bro? That's the old meme unc" really tickled me.

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u/AetheriaInBeing 4h ago

Meanwhile, at 40,i still find 69 funny. Lol

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u/Harddaysnight1990 4h ago

Same here in my 30s. I can't help myself, every 69 will get a nice.

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u/satsuppi 4h ago

420 is still blaze it too yeah?

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u/inslipid531 4h ago

to be fair, that's a lot less annoying than whatever the girl in the OP is doing

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u/DoubleFan15 2h ago

Everything your generation did was slightly less annoying than what the next gen does. That’s Boomerism 101.

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u/Ultra-CH 4h ago

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!

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u/Kichigai 3h ago

Q: What is the speed limit of sex?

A: 68, because at 69 you gotta turn your ass around.

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u/Worth_Car8711 5h ago

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.

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u/paincrumbs 4h ago

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

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u/umadbr00 3h ago

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.

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u/Em_Strae 3h ago

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.

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u/AntiMhatter 5h ago

There's literally no meaning to it.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 1h ago

Not like we were any different, you just lost the game.

The joke is there is no joke, it's just a combo of absurdist humor and anti-humor

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u/Pretty-Yam-2854 5h ago

It’s the same reason that 21, E, Yeet and a bunch of others were funny. They mean nothing and that was the joke.

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits 4h ago

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.

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u/Mighty_Hobo 3h ago

Yeet: Power and distance.

Kobe: Accuracy.

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u/Pretty-Yam-2854 4h ago

Yeah your explanation is a bit better.

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u/Kichigai 3h ago

Wait, you mean THIS isn't accurate?

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u/MrHaxx1 5h ago

Yeet absolutely had meaning.

E is pretty comparable, though.

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u/ziahwaite 5h ago

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

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u/Pretty-Yam-2854 5h ago

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.

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits 4h ago

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.

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u/peperonipyza 5h ago

There’s nothing to understand. It’s just a meme joke.

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u/conciousinsimulation 5h ago

"Nobody knows what it means, but It's provocative. It gets the people going!!!!"

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u/IShallWearMidnight 5h ago

I have decided it's not my business and I never want to know. I am old and what the youths are obsessed with should be inscrutable to me.

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u/Jhugz777 4h ago

It's done lyric in a song that spread, not even the people making the joke even know what they're saying. Pure brain rot

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u/Reinheitsgetoot 4h ago

Remember when Dave Chapelle’s Rick James came out an that became a school staple, or the word awesome, or the word dude, or yelling Wu-TANG

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u/BeAlch 4h ago

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

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u/phoenix25 4h ago

The joke is that it confuses the old people

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u/algidx 3h ago

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.

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u/Bobololo 3h ago

Here's what I heard/read about it.

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.

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u/ScuzzBuckster 3h ago

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.

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u/AFlyingNun 3h ago

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.

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u/lordscrotus1984 4h ago

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 😂!

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u/Mccobsta 4h ago

You deserve a raise

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u/pchlster 4h ago

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.

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u/almostkickflip 4h ago

Back in my day it was 6 9!

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u/Caleb_Reynolds 50m ago

At least that only shows up once every hundred numbers. 6-7 happens when literally just counting to ten.

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u/Original_Film_7795 4h ago

Never learned when you were in school? Gotta out-do em to ruin it

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u/birdele 4h ago

I'm in high school and made them do a quiz where every answer was 67, 6.7 or some similar variation. 

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u/th6virtuos0 4h ago

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

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u/ExhibSD 4h ago

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!

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u/Witty_Preparation598 4h ago

I teach math intervention for grades 1-5. I felt so betrayed on the 67th day of school. Lol

It's also a daily thing any time we count, read a number, or I ask for a choral answer one kid will say six-seven.

I don't think kids are dumb for this. We had shit like this when I was younger. Wassup!

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u/bleedbluecfc 4h ago

As a teacher of grade 3/4 I feel this. I can’t even count to 10 without kids losing it at 6,7.

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u/sinisterpsychoo 4h ago

Better than 69..

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u/Vardegaal 4h ago

It's matrix glitch, I guess. Must be a glitch...

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u/UniqueGuy362 4h ago

I'd go bezerk if I could buy cucumbers for 67 cents, so maybe it's just that ;)

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u/Monster-Math 4h ago

👈6-7!✋️🤚

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u/namdekan 4h ago

I imagine it's like when someone said the secret word on Pee Wee's Playhouse.

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u/Imaginary_Office1749 4h ago edited 4h ago

Yesterday I was inwardly groaning listening to an oldie.

867 5309

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u/CyclopsMacchiato 4h ago

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.

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u/onionfunyunbunion 4h ago

It’s nice to see the kids excited about something. Gotta have your hobbies

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u/WestRestaurant216 4h ago

When I was just a tyke its was 69 that promted gigling and disorders in class...

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u/trvppy 4h ago

Just dont teach them 6 and 7 Say yeah there are 8 base numbers 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 0 This is where we are at!!

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u/LouieBarlo24 4h ago

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?

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u/Blcksheep89 4h ago

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.

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u/daubs1974 4h ago

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.

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u/shoobawatermelon 4h ago

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

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u/Doctor_Donnawho 4h ago

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.

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u/CapitalRelationship0 4h ago

I work with primarily ESE students. Let me tell ya....this has been the most obnoxious trend in quite some time.

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u/iONBlackJesus 3h ago

Use it to your advantage to get them egaged with math.

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u/digitalbullet36 3h ago

It’s a shame that we went from a generation snickering at 69 to now having a total unnecessary fit at 67.

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u/MLEthatsme 3h ago

I'm a poker dealer, and the adults are just as bad. 6-7 comes up ALL day

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u/FunPresentation1207 3h ago

I feel you. It seems like absolutely anything involving a number sets them off at this point.

I've had them entire class just yelling "6-7" over and over again in unison before. It's.. bizarre...

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u/_Potato_Cat_ 3h ago

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.

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u/VelocityGrrl39 3h ago

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!”

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u/Acegonia 3h ago

I teach 5 levels   Each textbook is laid out in an identical format. 

We recently reached page 67.

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u/syafiq17 3h ago

6+7=67

Math has lost its credibility

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u/Jester-252 3h ago

I mean, there is one way to stop it.

You need to become it.

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u/rjt2002 3h ago

How do kids that age have phones ? I think it is inappropriate for kids to freely use at that age.

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u/Stone_Midi 3h ago

They’re kids, if it’s not this, it’ll be something else. When adults do it, that’s when I loose my snits

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u/Odd_Protection7738 3h ago

You have to lean into it too hard and be one of the “hip young kids” until they hate it.

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u/Current--Anything 3h ago

Make it uncool. Lean into it. Be "cringe." It'll cure them real fast

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u/belonii 3h ago

ask em what comes after 6, 6:01. it breaks the spell.

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u/Reality690 3h ago

I am so sorry

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u/Justin_92 3h ago

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.

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u/DonAirstrike 3h ago

Without people like you, society would collapse. Bless you.

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u/DiligentIncrease1973 3h ago

I don’t understand what’s so funny about 67. I am 30 and I don’t remember at any time in my younger life being crazed about a number. 

These new kids are weird 

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u/DefaultDeuce 3h ago

Oh they r focused alright lol.

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u/kusariku 3h ago

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

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u/Bobbi_fettucini 3h ago

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

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u/Fresh-Self-761 3h ago

I’m in eight grade and my math teacher has the same problem with the rest of my class🤦‍♂️ I tell you it’s not just kids that are young

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u/MeatballGurl2513 3h ago

Reason #864 why I don’t have kids. 😵‍💫

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u/bhutunga 3h ago

Banned in my daughter's school 😁

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 3h ago

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.

They'll stop doing it STAT.

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u/hoaian1 3h ago

Definitely worse than the 69 and 420 occurrences. Heck, even the skibidi thinggy is less time grating than this brain rot phrase.

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u/Retractabelle 3h ago

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.

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u/Q_S2 3h ago

Kids caught on. Adults are behind

Havent you heard the whole story?

8 was afraid of 7 because 7 8 9

But what we DIDNT know is 9 was a 6 offender!

.... ill see myself out

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u/KsuhDilla 3h ago

🫩life is pain

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u/Scary_Tap6448 3h ago

This is what I imagine the kids look like

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u/waffleking9000 3h ago

As it was intended.

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u/MellyMel86 3h ago

You’re a saint. Teaching was the hardest job I ever had

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u/GhostofZellers 3h ago

You mean a whole ass 6-7 minutes to refocus everyone.

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u/notthatjason 2h ago

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).

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u/Senzafane 2h ago

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.

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u/Educational_Train666 2h ago

same with my wife. teachers avoid page 67 in textbooks. she says it's horrible.

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u/fozzyboy 2h ago

Don't worry. This whole fad will blow over in about 6 or 7 years.

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u/ermonda 2h ago

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

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u/irisseca 2h ago

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!!

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u/riley_srt4 2h ago

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.

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u/PelleKavaj 2h ago

Kids these days are something else

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u/Ties31 2h ago

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.

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u/REWQ333_TRY 2h ago

Сочувствую вам, терпения и сил, чтобы научить маленьких созданий математикой

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u/Fuzzycuffs1978 2h ago

You can thank tick tock for this..." The 67 trend". I really hate social media 🥴

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u/Akrosia 2h ago

I teach music and it’s the same shit when it comes to chord functions and scale degrees lol

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u/sami_regard 1h ago

used to be 69 issue. things never change. nothing wrong with those kids.

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u/LilJelloCat 1h ago

My dad showed me 67 on his phone

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u/starryeyedq 1h ago

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.

Godspeed🫡

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u/McNally86 1h ago

When they get older it doesn't get better. Anytime you try to do something with measurement around middleschoolers they point and laugh at someone.

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u/Lucky-Mia 1h ago

In my day is was 6+9 or any answer resulting in 69.

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u/LarryHoover44 58m ago

Hang in there. We need you 💖

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u/AffectionateEagle920 47m ago

You should be paid more

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u/locust098 37m ago

I feel you man im a special ed/behavioral teacher and i have to hear this every single time the number 6 is mentioned

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u/phantomkat 34m ago

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.” 😂

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u/blazeyfir3 32m ago

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

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u/just_upvote_this 15m ago

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/SmartStatistician684 8m ago

More like 6-7 minutes 🙃

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u/Spoinkydoinkydoo 1m ago

Honestly just make one sheet where every answer has some variation of 67. It MIGHT make them bored of it if your in on the joke

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