The New Viral Math Trick That Everyone Is Asking Why It Wasn’t Taught In School?

There are many of the older generation and some of the new who hate maths to the point of throwing even an exam paper out of the window. But today is a different story. Today students have a vast number of resources and the internet to provide them problem solving hacks and tricks that actually makes math much easier. Then of course there are some brilliant minds out there like Ben Stephens who devised a simple math formula for finding out percentages. When he posted it in Twitter, it went viral.

1Math made simple

This useful and easy math trick could have prevented a good many hours of tension and time taken cracking brains on problem solving. Many on twitter asked “why the hell wasn’t this taught in school?”

2The new trick is taking the internet by storm

Many people have a lot of difficulty in calculating percentages in spite of having a calculator. Take for example, if you were asked to calculate 4% of 75, you wouldn’t even bother because it would be too much botheration and a waste of your time.  But did you know that there is an easier way?

3It was always so easy yet no one thought of it earlier

Half the internet isn’t even aware of the fact that there is an easier way of calculating percentages. Take a look at the trick Ben Stevens a math wizard posted on Twitter. Several followers and Twitterati commented on the ingenuity of the post which was actually so simple yet no one thought of it before.

4Just reverse the calculation

The day he posted it which as you can see is last week; it got several likes and comments. The answer to the solution, of course, is 3. It is much easier to calculate than having to solve 4% of 75. If you apply this formula to any other problem of percentage, you’ll find it actually works. The answer is always the same when you reverse the numbers.