Ethan by dear boy, CoolMathGames is meant to be used to thwart the teachers by not playing actual math games but playing all the other sweet, sweet nostalgic games. You didn't have to subject yourself to that.
Ethan’s anxiety toward doing math is so relatable to me lmao. I remember being told I’d have to do math during my ADHD testing and being so embarrassed when I couldn’t do it in my head.
I used to cry all the time during school in math class bc I was so stressed from trying to do math. I have add too and anxiety in general so that didn't help. Anyway one high school graduation later and I don't even remember how to do division sometimes let alone algebra/geometry bs.
ethan ending up in tears over math brought me back to doing math homework growing up. i'd end up crying over it almost daily and my parents always ended up making me feel really bad about it. i'm still really, really insecure about math - especially because i still have to count on my fingers most of the time and people STILL make fun of me for not being able to do it off the top of my head edit: i feel like i should sprinkle in that i am an adult who plays tabletop games now so that's the most reason i get made fun of
Literally my life word for word 😭 it's so frustrating. And the fact that math is like the #1 thing people get shamed about not being able to do. Being bad at other subjects is never as big of a deal 😑
Hey it’s ok that you’re not good at math! A lot of people are like that and it isn’t a bad thing in the slightest. What matters is that you’re still going strong and you somehow figure it out in the end. Plus you are most likely skilled in something completely different and that evens it out!
I was able to opt out of algebra in high school, my junior year, because I was that unhelpable in math. At the time (the late 2000s), I don't think people really knew about dyscalculia ("math dyslexia" which also presents with seeing images backward in the head, and difficulty reading non-digital clocks), and people just kept at it that I wasn't "trying hard enough". My frustrated tears were perceived as crocodile tears, which further made me dread learning math. I think that mode of teaching is common in American classrooms, and has birthed a generation of chronic calculator users.
I took algebra1 for 8 years 8 different times. I ended up only passing ONCE and it was only because my family friend was my teacher and let me cheat so I could graduate high school. It took me until after i dropped out of college to even find out what adhd was and that i probably have it. I can’t believe my many schools let me go through that dhfjdjhc
@@NateLovesPasta My uncle was once married to a woman who had a similar experience in college. Took her seven years to graduate. Because of that, when I started college and still had a lot of problems in Intro to Mathematics class, I was like "mmmm, nope, not doing that". In a cool and sexy twist, there's now a math waiver you can ask for in most colleges, so I'm wondering if I should go back.
back in my high school there was always this one group of students during their senior years that manage to opt out of math classes as a whole and instead did a different topic when everyone else was doing maths instead (the subject always changes each year based on student picks), and while ironically I'm good at algebra and basic mathematics I was part of that group for my year that opted out of maths and did ancient history classes instead I did feel bad for the students that weren't so lucky though
@@lazyperfectionist3978 I think the class I had in place of that was Early Childhood Development, which I had the second iteration of in Senior year. I was in Special Education in a class that helped me with assignments outside of the normal classes, but by the aforementioned years, all I needed that class for was a quiet place to do the work on my own. ADHD was a toughy couple with anxiety and my weird brain stuff, but I kept my head low enough to skate by with Bs and Cs. Always thought I was stupid until I went to college and started actually acing all of my classes (except math).
I am a grown ass woman in my 50's, raising my family on my own, managing all the bills. I have a job that requires figures and percentages all day. I cannot begin to say how much I can fully relate to Ethan. Math is IMPOSSIBLE for me without Excel formulas and calculators. I know what it feels like to be presenting an analysis in a web meeting IN FRONT OF PEOPLE and needing to work on figures in the report. Instant sweat. I don't care how comfortable and confident I am with the people or the data in the report, the second I need to do math it's over for me. Yes, I do sometimes have to count on my fingers. I barely made it through math courses in school. It's not confirmed with a doctor but I'm certain I have a mathlexia? Is that a thing? My brain just freezes and cannot compute. The more I panic (which I do) the worse it gets. If you add letters to the equation my head explodes. Why the F are there letters?!!!
I'm so happy to see I'm not the only one who's brain just shuts down when it comes to math. If I'm stressed, you could ask me the most basic math questions and I will just freeze.
That calculator game is actually a great way to practice doing intuitive math!!! You were doing so much with the 'this multiplication is close, then just adding or subtracting' thing, that's the perfect way to figure stuff out rather than stressing. If you don't do math every day, you can always use this method to get close to the answer you need. (edited for accidental strikethrough)
Hey ethan!! A really good math game is this one called prodigy! Its like a math themed rpg, I played it alot as a kid. its like the only way I could do math competently when I was a wee lad! I think you'd like it :))
Ethan, the fact that you were able to turn this experience into a dramatic challenge with entertainment value proves you're actually pretty smart. Sorry that the Math Anxiety is rough, society teaches these concepts in the worst ways and makes the psyches of students suffer for it. Love you, man. You rock.
It's okay Ethan, I am also AWFUL at math I cannot do mental math at all except simple addition and subtraction and even that takes a second for me to realize what the answer was
i struggle A LOT with math and these videos genuinely help me feel better, bc they're a reminder that theres plenty of other ppl out there who have a hard time with math. (for some reason growing up it seemed like everyone around me was way better at math than me, like i was always the worst in the class)
The fact that I’ve had so many breakdowns exactly like that when doing math as a kid, and seeing it on someone else both hurts because nobody should have to go through that but also felt relieving. The Unus Annus math video already made me emotional when it was out, and I knew this would. But damn does it hit more… Thanks for doing this Eef
As someone who suspects they have dyscalculia I found myself feeling every bit of pain that you showed during this video. I also found myself celebrating extremely hard when you solved a puzzle - especially if I also solved it. Kind of a comradery-type thing I guess? Well done on what you did accomplish here, Eef. You are not stupid.
Really proud of you for doing this. I struggle with ADHD and I’m one month off my medication after being on 3 different kinds for 5 years. Re learning how to do stuff like simple math ? So hard man. Thank you for showing this side of the brain. You aren’t dumb, math is just learned differently by every brain ❤️
But can we also talk about real math anxiety or trauma? How it can be a spiral of stress that makes it harder to do simple math, so you get more stressed so it becomes more difficult etc etc... I relate very strongly to the energy in this video
I'm very good at math but the stress and anxiety I got from former math teachers makes me too nervous to remember even basic math. i memorized the times table up to 12 and even though I know the answer I overthink and doubt myself and freeze. I'm amazing at algebra but simple calculations and remembering the equations themselves is impossible for me now
I haven't taught math at my school yet, but from what I've seen, there are many strategies used now compared to when I was an elementary student. I hope it keeps on improving. You're absolutely not dumb for not being able to just do it in your head!
God, Ethan! If it makes you feel any better, I'm 24 and I have to still count on my fingers! And if I don't, I take forever as I zone out and try to visualize the actual numbers. You're not alone! I think it's just the adhd (which I also have)
This made me empathy cry. I remember as a kid I got in a screaming match with a teacher who wouldn't let me use a calculator in a test despite me having tons of paperwork about my disabilities. They said since it wasn't allowed on standardized tests they didn't allow it either. I made a 17 on the math part of the ACTs and only that because I got a calculator for part of it.
I once left Webkinz open on my laptop while I went on vacation (because it crashed and wouldn't close) and kept my computer plugged in. Luckily, it didn't overheat, but gahdayum I was fucking stupid
@@monumentethos I did something similar on my mom's laptop when I was seven. I was playing Webkinz and I left it open too long and when my mom went to use the laptop it was permanently glitched out. Needless to say, I was in pretty big trouble.
This whole video just made me want to hug Ethan and tell him it's okay not to be good at math. I can barely read or write because I'm hella dyslexic so I feel his pain but in a different way.
I just wanna say that my mom is 110% in your corner and rooted for you the whole time with encouraging statements and that as a former teacher (and the parent of someone who is also shit at math) kept gently but adamantly proclaiming that you are not in fact stupid, you just got intimidated by numbers and nobody actually helped you figure them out like they were supposed to when you were a kid. She also got excited during your winning streak and kept saying things to hype you up.
Omg Ethan did so good! It's so scary to take on something like this that's been such a problem for years, and for him to do this well with no practice! I hope he can stop beating himself up so much about it and be proud of how much he accomplished
Honestly as someone with anxiety and occasional difficulty existing this is a huge mood and I'm very sorry Ethan but also thank you for your efforts. Congrats on your win
Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. It's actually pretty brave if you're willing to put your less strong abilities out there for everyone to see.
3:25-3:35 is an extremely accurate representation of me faced with more than 3 numbers or anything more complicated than addition or subtraction. Don't worry, Ethan. You are not alone!
the second math game reminds me of a "mini game" my math course had me do at the end of every test that got bonus points to the score- with very loud gameshow music and a loudly ticking timer that made me cry every single time I did it. This isn't relevant to the video but that made me feel exactly the same way ethan was in this video
Okay but Ethan didn’t actually do badly in most of the games esp that calculator one. Poor bean was just so nervous about it all. Whatever way you do math that works for you is good!!
I've genuinely never seen anyone struggle with math this much 😭 I am very glad that Ethan's career as a content creator does not require a lot of math. I genuinely struggle with more complex math sometimes so I completely understand the feeling of trying but just not getting it. It's a lot easier when there's explanation and reasoning behind the methods and when games like this just throw you into it with no guidance it can definitely be hard for those who struggle to recognize patterns and equations out of nothing but numbers. Also that being said, this video was really fucking funny. Just watching the descent happen right before our eyes. Ultimately no one should feel bad about this though if someone judges your character off your ability to do math their opinion is shit anyways 😂😂
Dude math is something that genuinely makes me cry while attempting it, not even joking. Math in school was the worst. Like I swear I'm not dumb, my brain just cannot deal with numbers. I have adhd like Ethan too so maybe that has something to do with it.
@@scarabdust same with me! if I have to do math that is harder than 2+2 I start to f*cking tear up. math gave me so much anxiety in school and it was a subject I never ever understood. I don’t have ADHD (or atleast I think I don’t lol) but math is the one thing I still struggle with. I have to count with my fingers :,)
This is how I felt every time I picked up my math homework as a kid, and it didn't go away in college. It's is why I only ever played crazy taxi and papa's freezeria on there every time my school let me play on that site. I feel you Ethan. It's torture.
I played a lot of coolmathgames waaaay back in 3rd grade because my teacher often let us play these during any breaks we had in between actual learning segments. In middle school, none of this was allowed because “we gotta prep you for high school” seriousness. In high school, we each had our own chrome book and they couldn’t ban sites like this because teachers used them so ofc everybody played them in the back of class. Now I’m almost through college and I honestly forgot this site existed for a while because I’ve been too into other games
As someone who failed my college freshman year math class and barely skated by in high school, this weirdly makes me feel so much better. It makes me feel less alone in my struggles!
This brings me back to the classic and simple days of Cool Math, V-Math, ABC Ya, the PBS Kids games, and the Ticket to Read thing. They were all my shit (excluding Prodigy, which I still play rarely)
So real talk tho, Ethan, I can tell just from this that you're actually not at all bad at math. When you stay calm and work out the problem, you get the answer correct. You're not bad at math, you're just afraid of math. And math can smell your fear. Once you sit with it and stare at it for a bit, I think it'll be less scary and you could totally do it and beating yourself up over it is what makes you bad at it. I think this applies to any skill someone tries to learn tbh.
watching Ethan struggle so hard with math is genuinely painful for me 😭 I was always naturally good at math (notice I say *was* ) and seeing Ethan purposely put himself through this pain hurts me Ethan: you are not dumb. stop with that self deprecating behavior >:( it is okay to have struggles!
Literally just watched {REDACTED} again from my own private archive and I want to say how much I love that video because it really, really feels validating to see someone struggle with math anxiety like myself. I also found it very brave of Ethan to just throw himself into this math challenge! All the best Ethan, I, too, am in my mid/late twenties and I struggle with the maths lol. I cheer you on!
Ethan: im so scared cause I'm so bad at math!! My brother in christ 90% of games on coolmathgames do not involve math at all Edit: he really only picked the games with math in them huh
Watching Eef cry while sadly solving addition problems against a cyclops monster named Alert Diva is not how I imagined I'd be spending my Saturday night, but here I am
Ethan I know you probably won't see this but you have influenced my self-esteem in such a positive way with this video in particular. My biggest insecurity has always been my intellectual ability, SPECIFICALLY my math skills. I know this video was meant to be funny but it honestly made me kind of emotional. I've always been absolutely terrified of having to do math in front of other people, I'd say it's one of my biggest fears. The way you've gone about making this video gives me hope that maybe I can overcome this fear. Even though you know math isn't one of your strengths, you still decided to put yourself out there and make something great out of it. What I'm saying is, this video made me realize that I don't have to be afraid and ashamed of my disability. You're literally out here making money and entertaining people doing the one thing I'm most terrified of and one of the things I struggle with the most. You've made a profound impact on me by making this video. I'm pretty sure your intention wasn't to make a particularly life-changing video in this instance, but that's how I see it. So, thank you.
This video honestly made me feel so much better about myself because I literally feel exactly like Ethan with any math like I am so bad and it just doesn’t make sense I always felt like I was the only one who didn’t understand it as much as I do and it was so fun to struggle the same along with him
Ethan's reaction to the last game was my reaction to those timed math papers with like 50 questions on them. I legit remember sitting and crying one time and told my teacher "I wish to visit heaven early Ms. Carden"
Such fond memories of this site lol Our teachers would allow us to play any game on the site as long as we played at LEAST one game actually related to math. Personal fav was "Run"
This is really weird for me because I also have ADHD but it makes my brain faster so math is actually easier for me to do in my head. However, it's hard for me to do on paper because my brain gets ahead of my hand, and I have to backtrack to figure out what I did to get the answer so I can write it out. In elementary school there were many times where I got a sheet of math problems, solved it all very quickly, spaced out while I waited for my classmates to catch up, and then missed important information because I forgot to space back in. So watching this video is painful for me because it's all mental math so I get the answer almost instantaneously and then have to sit through 30 seconds of Ethan struggling and failing to figure it out. But I also spend the whole time feeling bad for Ethan and empathizing because I do the same thing whenever I have to recall a name or date. I suck at history class and I usually don't know the names of most of my classmates and some of teachers.
When I was in school we played on Cool Math Games for literally anything but math and I loved playing Run 3, Fireboy and Watergirl, Be-cubed, and Poptropica.
honestly i felt a different kind of empathy watching this--as someone who has always struggled with math but still took advanced courses (that happens way more often than you might think). to this very day, i still have anxiety surrounding math--mostly when i feel as though a quick response is warranted. now even though i am always quadruple guessing myself and could probably give a quick (correct) answer, i'm always worried that i'll be wrong and then deemed as ethan put it "dumb" or "stupid" by someone who i want to perceive me as smart. but we're not dumb, we're just not math people and that's okay. happy 10 years ethan, hope for many more happy years. (((:
I'm horrible at math too. I used to be so ashamed of it, thinking my world was gonna fall apart. That I'd never get a job or a proper education. Even now, when I know it's not the end of the world, it's still super nice to see that I'm not alone in thinking Math is unbelievable hard to grasp.
I relate to this so hard, doing math under pressure is my worst nightmare and i’ve hated the subject all my life because I would get judged for counting on my fingers. I’ve memorized most of the multiples because of parody songs my elementary math teacher came up with (excluding numbers like 5, 10 and 2 which i’m a bit better at). I will never be able to memorize multiples, let alone more complex math. None of ya’ll are alone in that struggle
those midday games of fireboy and watergirl after lunch were ALWAYSSSS hitting different
DUDEEE YES I loved that game
I’m so sad they took away fire boy and water girl😭
Hell yeah
@@PhineasFerb001 when did they do that ? :0 it’s still here for me
@@papalonglegz3421 When they took away AdobeFlash, it’s still there but you can’t play Fireboy and Watergirl:Forest Temple anymore
Everytime Ethan does Math all I can hear is "THERE IS NO EASY!"
“there is no easy! 👨🏽🍳🤌🏽”
Same
“11s are easy”
“Impressive”
"I'm almost in my MID TWENTIES!"
Ethan by dear boy, CoolMathGames is meant to be used to thwart the teachers by not playing actual math games but playing all the other sweet, sweet nostalgic games. You didn't have to subject yourself to that.
"Ethan my dear boy" is the best way to describe him, probably. Apart from "Eef" of course
@@snuffletruffler7880 agreed 🤝
Ok but hear me out combine the 2
Cool Math Games; the one game you can play and teachers think you’re actually doing math while you’re most likely playing Papa’s Pizzaria😃😃
Yesss papas pizzeria was all I played in class on the little chromebooks
Aha yeah
The papa’s games were so good I’m not gonna lie
yea that or run 3 with my friend
Exactly
“I am terrified to film this video, absolutely terrified” this is just a constant mood to me about maths
I hope he does another video doing the classics, like Papa’s pizzeria, fire girl and water boy, or that alien run game.
Those are the best!
It's called Run
Literally all my faves I spent hours playing Run and the Papa games!!
The holy trinity of cool math games 😂
or reach the core, truck loader, fire boy and water girl, catch the candy... that one basketball game...
Ethan’s anxiety toward doing math is so relatable to me lmao. I remember being told I’d have to do math during my ADHD testing and being so embarrassed when I couldn’t do it in my head.
I used to count on my fingers until 7th grade or something :,)
I can barely do simple math in my head to this day. It's so stressful I need to write it down
I have always just made very weird marking and such so that no one realizes I’m doing basic subtraction on paper..
I used to cry all the time during school in math class bc I was so stressed from trying to do math. I have add too and anxiety in general so that didn't help. Anyway one high school graduation later and I don't even remember how to do division sometimes let alone algebra/geometry bs.
you had to do math ???
ethan ending up in tears over math brought me back to doing math homework growing up. i'd end up crying over it almost daily and my parents always ended up making me feel really bad about it. i'm still really, really insecure about math - especially because i still have to count on my fingers most of the time and people STILL make fun of me for not being able to do it off the top of my head
edit: i feel like i should sprinkle in that i am an adult who plays tabletop games now so that's the most reason i get made fun of
SAME IT'S OKAY
Literally my life word for word 😭 it's so frustrating. And the fact that math is like the #1 thing people get shamed about not being able to do. Being bad at other subjects is never as big of a deal 😑
samesie. even when my dad would try lecture me, i don't think i didn't cry every single time
Yup yup same ☹️
Hey it’s ok that you’re not good at math! A lot of people are like that and it isn’t a bad thing in the slightest. What matters is that you’re still going strong and you somehow figure it out in the end. Plus you are most likely skilled in something completely different and that evens it out!
Ethan's genuine belief that 7 times 3 was 18 is absolutely killing me (esp cuz i would do the same)
him going through that entire thing hurt... just multiply the number it's asking for at the top by 1 the whole time.... whoo boi that hurt
@alexvicky you can only ise single digit numbers
I was able to opt out of algebra in high school, my junior year, because I was that unhelpable in math. At the time (the late 2000s), I don't think people really knew about dyscalculia ("math dyslexia" which also presents with seeing images backward in the head, and difficulty reading non-digital clocks), and people just kept at it that I wasn't "trying hard enough". My frustrated tears were perceived as crocodile tears, which further made me dread learning math. I think that mode of teaching is common in American classrooms, and has birthed a generation of chronic calculator users.
I took algebra1 for 8 years 8 different times. I ended up only passing ONCE and it was only because my family friend was my teacher and let me cheat so I could graduate high school. It took me until after i dropped out of college to even find out what adhd was and that i probably have it. I can’t believe my many schools let me go through that dhfjdjhc
Cheers to dyscalculia besties. We may be bad at math but we are still mega cool 😎😎😎
@@NateLovesPasta My uncle was once married to a woman who had a similar experience in college. Took her seven years to graduate. Because of that, when I started college and still had a lot of problems in Intro to Mathematics class, I was like "mmmm, nope, not doing that". In a cool and sexy twist, there's now a math waiver you can ask for in most colleges, so I'm wondering if I should go back.
back in my high school there was always this one group of students during their senior years that manage to opt out of math classes as a whole and instead did a different topic when everyone else was doing maths instead (the subject always changes each year based on student picks), and while ironically I'm good at algebra and basic mathematics I was part of that group for my year that opted out of maths and did ancient history classes instead
I did feel bad for the students that weren't so lucky though
@@lazyperfectionist3978 I think the class I had in place of that was Early Childhood Development, which I had the second iteration of in Senior year. I was in Special Education in a class that helped me with assignments outside of the normal classes, but by the aforementioned years, all I needed that class for was a quiet place to do the work on my own.
ADHD was a toughy couple with anxiety and my weird brain stuff, but I kept my head low enough to skate by with Bs and Cs. Always thought I was stupid until I went to college and started actually acing all of my classes (except math).
And we're all saying that Mark is the masochist
This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone actually play math games on cool math games
I knew Ethan was gonna do cool math games at SOME point.
I am a grown ass woman in my 50's, raising my family on my own, managing all the bills. I have a job that requires figures and percentages all day. I cannot begin to say how much I can fully relate to Ethan. Math is IMPOSSIBLE for me without Excel formulas and calculators. I know what it feels like to be presenting an analysis in a web meeting IN FRONT OF PEOPLE and needing to work on figures in the report. Instant sweat. I don't care how comfortable and confident I am with the people or the data in the report, the second I need to do math it's over for me. Yes, I do sometimes have to count on my fingers. I barely made it through math courses in school. It's not confirmed with a doctor but I'm certain I have a mathlexia? Is that a thing? My brain just freezes and cannot compute. The more I panic (which I do) the worse it gets. If you add letters to the equation my head explodes. Why the F are there letters?!!!
it's called dyscalculia, it's the math equivalent of dyslexia. :)
Dyscalculia and yes its a thing
Disgraphia
I'm so happy to see I'm not the only one who's brain just shuts down when it comes to math. If I'm stressed, you could ask me the most basic math questions and I will just freeze.
Ah cool math games I used to play this instead of doing work and when I told the teachers what I was playing they didn’t suspect me
That calculator game is actually a great way to practice doing intuitive math!!! You were doing so much with the 'this multiplication is close, then just adding or subtracting' thing, that's the perfect way to figure stuff out rather than stressing. If you don't do math every day, you can always use this method to get close to the answer you need. (edited for accidental strikethrough)
12:42 Funny thing, no one actually played the math games on cool math games, unless they were multiplayer games.
It genuine makes me so happy to see Ethan struggling because I’m terrible at math as well 😭😭
I feel bad for Alert Diva getting absolutely steamrolled like that
I've never felt more like a proud parent than watching Ethan do addition in Math Clash 🥰
COOL MATH GAMES WAS MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD
“THIS GAME SUCKS” *contiunues to play and do good*
Hey ethan!! A really good math game is this one called prodigy! Its like a math themed rpg, I played it alot as a kid. its like the only way I could do math competently when I was a wee lad! I think you'd like it :))
I still play prodigy sometimes just for memories
@@fiveelevenevan same :)
@@fiveelevenevan Same ngl.
i recently remembered it existed and went to check I out after years. its a neat game
oh dude i REMEMBER prodigy from like. 6th grade or whatnot that was a while ago. i could CRUSH that game now
As a math person.. some of those problems were insanely hard.
were they? maybe I missed something but this was all just arithmetic
Ethan, the fact that you were able to turn this experience into a dramatic challenge with entertainment value proves you're actually pretty smart. Sorry that the Math Anxiety is rough, society teaches these concepts in the worst ways and makes the psyches of students suffer for it. Love you, man. You rock.
It's okay Ethan, I am also AWFUL at math I cannot do mental math at all except simple addition and subtraction and even that takes a second for me to realize what the answer was
i struggle A LOT with math and these videos genuinely help me feel better, bc they're a reminder that theres plenty of other ppl out there who have a hard time with math. (for some reason growing up it seemed like everyone around me was way better at math than me, like i was always the worst in the class)
The fact that I’ve had so many breakdowns exactly like that when doing math as a kid, and seeing it on someone else both hurts because nobody should have to go through that but also felt relieving.
The Unus Annus math video already made me emotional when it was out, and I knew this would. But damn does it hit more…
Thanks for doing this Eef
As someone who suspects they have dyscalculia I found myself feeling every bit of pain that you showed during this video. I also found myself celebrating extremely hard when you solved a puzzle - especially if I also solved it. Kind of a comradery-type thing I guess? Well done on what you did accomplish here, Eef. You are not stupid.
I’m like 8 minutes in and CRYING because now I know what it was like for mom to watch me absolutely struggle to do math💀😂
Cool math games brings back so many memories of telling teachers I was playing math games when in reality I was making some pizza 🍕
When Ethan said "I have to count on my fingers" I literally had my hands raised counting I feel called out Mr crank
Thank you Etahn, for not making me feel bad about my math skills, because I was just as confused as you were
Really proud of you for doing this. I struggle with ADHD and I’m one month off my medication after being on 3 different kinds for 5 years. Re learning how to do stuff like simple math ? So hard man. Thank you for showing this side of the brain. You aren’t dumb, math is just learned differently by every brain ❤️
But can we also talk about real math anxiety or trauma? How it can be a spiral of stress that makes it harder to do simple math, so you get more stressed so it becomes more difficult etc etc...
I relate very strongly to the energy in this video
I'm very good at math but the stress and anxiety I got from former math teachers makes me too nervous to remember even basic math. i memorized the times table up to 12 and even though I know the answer I overthink and doubt myself and freeze. I'm amazing at algebra but simple calculations and remembering the equations themselves is impossible for me now
I haven't taught math at my school yet, but from what I've seen, there are many strategies used now compared to when I was an elementary student. I hope it keeps on improving. You're absolutely not dumb for not being able to just do it in your head!
The Run series was my shit
I had a small group of three goblins behind me in the computer lab in 3rd grade hyping me up.
Watching Ethan struggle to do math is genuinely the funniest thing ever in a lighthearted way. It’s funny because I’m the exact same
I don’t see why Eef is mad at us. He didn’t have to play the math games.
Please please please don’t feel bad. You were just brave enough to do what no one else could. 🙌🏻👏🏼
This game was great for pretending we *were* doing math in school
ethan forgetting that he can just undo division by multiplying by the same number is SO amusing to me
I love cool math games! I remember playing it so many times during school and sometimes just in my free-time, the games were always so fun :]
I remember the good ol days in middle school playing run 1 & 2
God, Ethan! If it makes you feel any better, I'm 24 and I have to still count on my fingers! And if I don't, I take forever as I zone out and try to visualize the actual numbers. You're not alone! I think it's just the adhd (which I also have)
I give you Ethan! the only person on earth who actually played math games on cool math games
I’ve been WAITING for this one
This made me empathy cry. I remember as a kid I got in a screaming match with a teacher who wouldn't let me use a calculator in a test despite me having tons of paperwork about my disabilities. They said since it wasn't allowed on standardized tests they didn't allow it either. I made a 17 on the math part of the ACTs and only that because I got a calculator for part of it.
Since Ethan has done cool math games and girls go games, I think the next game he should play is Webkinz.
I once left Webkinz open on my laptop while I went on vacation (because it crashed and wouldn't close) and kept my computer plugged in. Luckily, it didn't overheat, but gahdayum I was fucking stupid
@@monumentethos I did something similar on my mom's laptop when I was seven. I was playing Webkinz and I left it open too long and when my mom went to use the laptop it was permanently glitched out. Needless to say, I was in pretty big trouble.
This whole video just made me want to hug Ethan and tell him it's okay not to be good at math. I can barely read or write because I'm hella dyslexic so I feel his pain but in a different way.
Having difficulties with numbers and math is called dyscalculia. and its very common in neurodivergent individuals.
I just wanna say that my mom is 110% in your corner and rooted for you the whole time with encouraging statements and that as a former teacher (and the parent of someone who is also shit at math) kept gently but adamantly proclaiming that you are not in fact stupid, you just got intimidated by numbers and nobody actually helped you figure them out like they were supposed to when you were a kid. She also got excited during your winning streak and kept saying things to hype you up.
Omg Ethan did so good! It's so scary to take on something like this that's been such a problem for years, and for him to do this well with no practice! I hope he can stop beating himself up so much about it and be proud of how much he accomplished
Honestly as someone with anxiety and occasional difficulty existing this is a huge mood and I'm very sorry Ethan but also thank you for your efforts. Congrats on your win
Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. It's actually pretty brave if you're willing to put your less strong abilities out there for everyone to see.
3:25-3:35 is an extremely accurate representation of me faced with more than 3 numbers or anything more complicated than addition or subtraction. Don't worry, Ethan. You are not alone!
The way that Ethan feels about math is EXACTLY how I feel about reading kind of makes me feel less alone
the second math game reminds me of a "mini game" my math course had me do at the end of every test that got bonus points to the score- with very loud gameshow music and a loudly ticking timer that made me cry every single time I did it. This isn't relevant to the video but that made me feel exactly the same way ethan was in this video
this is making me remember the breakdown i had at the very beginning of 8th grade after not remembering how to do long division. it was great
God I'm about to be a senior and I still have trauma from not being able to do it properly and getting yelled at. I still don't know how to do it
This is my anxiety level when I try to do LITERALLY anything. I'm showing this to my therapist. Thank for sharing Ethan, you're brave man
I relate to Ethan's math ability frightingly hard
I grew up with coolmathgames and I don't think I ever played an actual math-related game. Mainly just Papa's games, fireboy/ watergirl, and run 😂
This was so real and raw with emotion, thank you for posting this 🦅
Okay but Ethan didn’t actually do badly in most of the games esp that calculator one. Poor bean was just so nervous about it all. Whatever way you do math that works for you is good!!
I've genuinely never seen anyone struggle with math this much 😭 I am very glad that Ethan's career as a content creator does not require a lot of math. I genuinely struggle with more complex math sometimes so I completely understand the feeling of trying but just not getting it. It's a lot easier when there's explanation and reasoning behind the methods and when games like this just throw you into it with no guidance it can definitely be hard for those who struggle to recognize patterns and equations out of nothing but numbers.
Also that being said, this video was really fucking funny. Just watching the descent happen right before our eyes. Ultimately no one should feel bad about this though if someone judges your character off your ability to do math their opinion is shit anyways 😂😂
you should see me doing math
Dude math is something that genuinely makes me cry while attempting it, not even joking. Math in school was the worst. Like I swear I'm not dumb, my brain just cannot deal with numbers. I have adhd like Ethan too so maybe that has something to do with it.
@@scarabdust The day I learned that almost everyone's dad screamed at them for not being able to do mental math was a life changing day lol
@@scarabdust same with me! if I have to do math that is harder than 2+2 I start to f*cking tear up. math gave me so much anxiety in school and it was a subject I never ever understood. I don’t have ADHD (or atleast I think I don’t lol) but math is the one thing I still struggle with. I have to count with my fingers :,)
This is how I felt every time I picked up my math homework as a kid, and it didn't go away in college. It's is why I only ever played crazy taxi and papa's freezeria on there every time my school let me play on that site. I feel you Ethan. It's torture.
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I'm happy to see Eef playing classics and old games, it brings a lot of memories back.
Ah yes, the days of playing Run and Fireboy and Watergirl instead of doing work in the computer lab. Good times, good times.
I played a lot of coolmathgames waaaay back in 3rd grade because my teacher often let us play these during any breaks we had in between actual learning segments.
In middle school, none of this was allowed because “we gotta prep you for high school” seriousness.
In high school, we each had our own chrome book and they couldn’t ban sites like this because teachers used them so ofc everybody played them in the back of class.
Now I’m almost through college and I honestly forgot this site existed for a while because I’ve been too into other games
This made me laugh so hard that I started to cry just because I'm also bad at math
As someone who failed my college freshman year math class and barely skated by in high school, this weirdly makes me feel so much better. It makes me feel less alone in my struggles!
Seeing this title made me unnecessarily happy
This brings me back to the classic and simple days of Cool Math, V-Math, ABC Ya, the PBS Kids games, and the Ticket to Read thing. They were all my shit (excluding Prodigy, which I still play rarely)
I only laughed cause this is far too relatable. I can't do math for shit and I struggle so much at work 😂
So real talk tho, Ethan, I can tell just from this that you're actually not at all bad at math. When you stay calm and work out the problem, you get the answer correct.
You're not bad at math, you're just afraid of math. And math can smell your fear.
Once you sit with it and stare at it for a bit, I think it'll be less scary and you could totally do it and beating yourself up over it is what makes you bad at it. I think this applies to any skill someone tries to learn tbh.
watching Ethan struggle so hard with math is genuinely painful for me 😭 I was always naturally good at math (notice I say *was* ) and seeing Ethan purposely put himself through this pain hurts me
Ethan: you are not dumb. stop with that self deprecating behavior >:( it is okay to have struggles!
Literally just watched {REDACTED} again from my own private archive and I want to say how much I love that video because it really, really feels validating to see someone struggle with math anxiety like myself. I also found it very brave of Ethan to just throw himself into this math challenge!
All the best Ethan, I, too, am in my mid/late twenties and I struggle with the maths lol. I cheer you on!
gen z be like
Ethan: im so scared cause I'm so bad at math!!
My brother in christ 90% of games on coolmathgames do not involve math at all
Edit: he really only picked the games with math in them huh
For everyone that struggles with math, I'm cheering you on! You are not an idiot if numbers are hard
I feel like im back in the computer lab with my crew playing papas pizzeria games
As someone who is currently failing my summer math course I needed this today, a confidence boost some may say lol.
Let’s go homie Cool Math Games!! 🥰
Watching Eef cry while sadly solving addition problems against a cyclops monster named Alert Diva is not how I imagined I'd be spending my Saturday night, but here I am
If people don't know what coolmathgames is or they never played anything on it, they're a red flag
Ethan I know you probably won't see this but you have influenced my self-esteem in such a positive way with this video in particular. My biggest insecurity has always been my intellectual ability, SPECIFICALLY my math skills. I know this video was meant to be funny but it honestly made me kind of emotional. I've always been absolutely terrified of having to do math in front of other people, I'd say it's one of my biggest fears. The way you've gone about making this video gives me hope that maybe I can overcome this fear. Even though you know math isn't one of your strengths, you still decided to put yourself out there and make something great out of it. What I'm saying is, this video made me realize that I don't have to be afraid and ashamed of my disability. You're literally out here making money and entertaining people doing the one thing I'm most terrified of and one of the things I struggle with the most. You've made a profound impact on me by making this video. I'm pretty sure your intention wasn't to make a particularly life-changing video in this instance, but that's how I see it.
So, thank you.
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Anyways, just needed to get that out of the way.
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This video honestly made me feel so much better about myself because I literally feel exactly like Ethan with any math like I am so bad and it just doesn’t make sense I always felt like I was the only one who didn’t understand it as much as I do and it was so fun to struggle the same along with him
Ethan's reaction to the last game was my reaction to those timed math papers with like 50 questions on them. I legit remember sitting and crying one time and told my teacher "I wish to visit heaven early Ms. Carden"
First maybe
You are indeed first
Congrats, you're first!
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Such fond memories of this site lol Our teachers would allow us to play any game on the site as long as we played at LEAST one game actually related to math. Personal fav was "Run"
no one is judging u ethan, as u said this is a supportive environment! we appreciate you trying ur hardest to give us content
This is really weird for me because I also have ADHD but it makes my brain faster so math is actually easier for me to do in my head. However, it's hard for me to do on paper because my brain gets ahead of my hand, and I have to backtrack to figure out what I did to get the answer so I can write it out. In elementary school there were many times where I got a sheet of math problems, solved it all very quickly, spaced out while I waited for my classmates to catch up, and then missed important information because I forgot to space back in. So watching this video is painful for me because it's all mental math so I get the answer almost instantaneously and then have to sit through 30 seconds of Ethan struggling and failing to figure it out. But I also spend the whole time feeling bad for Ethan and empathizing because I do the same thing whenever I have to recall a name or date. I suck at history class and I usually don't know the names of most of my classmates and some of teachers.
When I was in school we played on Cool Math Games for literally anything but math and I loved playing Run 3, Fireboy and Watergirl, Be-cubed, and Poptropica.
Ethan failing so badly at the first math puzzle had me sobbing on the floor. I love how well ethan is able to do math
honestly i felt a different kind of empathy watching this--as someone who has always struggled with math but still took advanced courses (that happens way more often than you might think). to this very day, i still have anxiety surrounding math--mostly when i feel as though a quick response is warranted. now even though i am always quadruple guessing myself and could probably give a quick (correct) answer, i'm always worried that i'll be wrong and then deemed as ethan put it "dumb" or "stupid" by someone who i want to perceive me as smart. but we're not dumb, we're just not math people and that's okay. happy 10 years ethan, hope for many more happy years. (((:
I'm horrible at math too. I used to be so ashamed of it, thinking my world was gonna fall apart. That I'd never get a job or a proper education.
Even now, when I know it's not the end of the world, it's still super nice to see that I'm not alone in thinking Math is unbelievable hard to grasp.
You really weren't doing so bad man. You're psyching yourself out and the timer doesn't help, but you've got that knowledge
I relate to this so hard, doing math under pressure is my worst nightmare and i’ve hated the subject all my life because I would get judged for counting on my fingers.
I’ve memorized most of the multiples because of parody songs my elementary math teacher came up with (excluding numbers like 5, 10 and 2 which i’m a bit better at). I will never be able to memorize multiples, let alone more complex math.
None of ya’ll are alone in that struggle