Academic disappointment Memes

The baby's first equation is mathematically incorrect, and it's breaking his mother's heart. The correct expansion of (x+y)² is x² + 2xy + y², not x² + y². This is the mathematical equivalent of watching your child's first steps lead directly into a wall. Every mathematician and algebra teacher just felt a disturbance in the force. The missing cross-term (2xy) will haunt this family for generations.