| Clue | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Sum things wrong | Newsday | 11 May 2025 |
| Make a math error as I'm inverting 500 + 500 (6) | ||
| Reckon wrong | Newsday | 09 Jun 2023 |
| Total up incorrectly | Eugene Sheffer | 01 Jun 2023 |
| Total up wrongly | Premier Sunday | 22 Jan 2023 |
| Total up incorrectly | Eugene Sheffer | 22 Jul 2019 |
| Totally screw up? | New York Times | 30 Mar 2019 |
| Totally screw up? | ||
| Err in finding the total of | Premier Sunday | 28 Oct 2018 |
| Have sum trouble | The Washington Post | 09 Sep 2018 |
| Have sum trouble | LA Times Daily | 09 Sep 2018 |
| Make sum mistakes? | Premier Sunday | 20 May 2018 |
| Have sum trouble | ||
| Do sum thing wrong? | Family Time | 20 Nov 2017 |
| Mess up the math | ||
| Say "2+2=5" | ||
| Total up incorrectly | ||
| Write 2 + 7 = 10, e.g. | ||
| Get a wrong number | ||
| Get a wrong number | ||
| Total incorrectly | ||
| Get a wrong number | ||
| Total badly | ||
| Reach a wrong number, perhaps | ||
| Say 2 + 3 = 6, e.g. | ||
| Get a wrong number | ||
| Be a total failure? | ||
| Get a wrong number | ||
| Total wrong | ||
| Do sum thing wrong? | ||
| Err on a check, maybe | ||
| Say "2 + 2 = 5," say | ||
| Get a wrong total | ||
| Mess up the math |