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Why do people get rude at me if I can’t figure out a homework problem?

I was asking about a math homework problem and some said, “You can’t figure that out? For order the operations you solve the numbers on parentheses first, then divide, multiply, add and subtract). Come on! Do the math! This isn’t rocket science you know. I’m not helping you with that. You’re a high school student, age 17 and you can’t figure this out? That’s pathetic.”
Wow that was very rude and harsh of that person to say it on my face. I almost cried but didn’t.

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hartfire

His style of delivery was impatient because, by 17, the majority of high school students do know how to do this type of equation.
Because of this, he may have regarded it as laziness to be asking for help.
But maybe, for some reason, you might have missed out on learning the method when everyone else did.
However, the method will be there in your textbook.
And there are instructions available free on the internet.
If, after making some serious efforts to do this by yourself, you still can't manage it, It might be worth asking your parents to pay for a weekly coaching session to help you catch up.
Or the school may have a remedial class where you could get one on one help.

He gave you the method for solving the problem when he said to solve the numbers between the parentheses first. But when he said "then divide, multiply, add or subtract", he should have said "then apply the functions given outside the brackets, and follow them in order from left to right.

It's actually very important to learn how to apply the right processes for each type of problem. It's how we learn how to think. Like learning to play music, it cannot happen without practice, and lots of it.
Learning requires effort. It cannot be spoon fed.