Mathematics Teacher Accidentally Created Music Joke That Trolled The Net

Aug 31, 2021 by apost team

Back in October 2017, a math teacher accidentally created a music meme that ended up trolling the world. Claire Longmoor is a math teacher in Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Like any teacher, she gave her students tests every now and then to make sure they were following the course content. Somehow, a photograph of one of the test questions got out and made its way to social media. A man by the name of Doug Mataconis shared the photograph on his Twitter, and it instantly went viral.

Many people were completely confused by the question and even argued over the correct answer in a long Twitter thread. The question seemed to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how music worked, as it was based on the concept of how long a particular piece of music by Beethoven would take to play based on the number of people playing the song. Whether one person or 100 people are playing the song, it would still take the same amount of time to play the song, but the question made it seem like the more players, the quicker the performance would be.

People from all over the world believed that the teacher had made an error and found the exam question pretty funny. Some even made fun of the teacher over her apparent confusion. However, no one could have expected Longmoor to find the tweet. Not only was she blown away by how so many people from around the world had found her test question, but she also offered an explanation behind her supposed madness just days after the initial Tweet was posted, teaching everyone a real lesson.

The Math Question That Shocked The World

Mataconis shared a picture of a question from a math test on his Twitter back in October 2017. Since then, his tweet has been liked over 28,000 times and has been retweeted over 15,000 times. The test question read: “An orchestra of 120 players takes 40 minutes to play Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. How long would it take for 60 players to play the symphony?” Mataconis posted a photo of the question along with his own thoughts. “That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works,” he explained.

Many people poked fun at the teacher, who seemed confused about how music works, and the question easily went viral. It circulated around so much that even the teacher who had created the test saw the tweet! Longmoor replied to Mataconis’ tweet, explaining that she had written the question back in 2007 and attached a copy of the whole original worksheet. Much to everyone’s surprise, Longmoor hadn’t been confused at all; in fact, she had accidentally created a music meme that ended up duping the world.

“Beware there is one trick question!” Longmoor wrote at the top of the original worksheet. After looking at the other questions that were on the old exam, everyone quickly realized that the one about Beethoven’s “9th Symphony” was, in fact, the trick question. Who knew that this math teacher, who had been the butt of the joke for days, would end up shocking the world with the truth behind her viral math exam? Longmoor clearly got the last laugh. In her Twitter bio, she declared that she is a “maths teacher of Beethoven’s 9th symphony twitter ‘fame.’”

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