Who Here Likes Math?

[Colleen]

[quote name='He carries me' date='May 26 2004, 02:31 PM'] does anyone here get really annoyed when they hear mathematically incorrect statements on the radio/television?

i've heard (several times) a commercial for starburst -- the announcer or someone says something about them being square and then says, well actually they're not square -- they're a cube

but they're not!!!!!!! [/quote]
Well, I always get annoyed when people say do whatever [b]in a straight line[/b]!

I mean, what is a line if it isn't straight?! That always bugs me.

[Archaeology cat]

I'm not exactly the biggest fan of math, but luckily I don't really have to use math in archaeology

[cathgirl]

math....grrrrrr

[He carries me]

fun math joke!!

[url="http://www.ajokes.com/jokes/817.html"]http://www.ajokes.com/jokes/817.html[/url]

[prov31girl]

:thatsfunny:

Edited May 31, 2004 by prov31girl

[He carries me]

Math is radical! ~Bumper Sticker


If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. ~Phil Pastoret

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi. ~Richard Preston

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ~S. Gudder

Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics. ~Dean Schlicter

Trigonometry is a sine of the times. ~Author Unknown

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~Paul Erdos

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~Eric Hoffer, Reflections On The Human Condition

To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. ~Ivars Peterson

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. ~Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology. ~Hilda Phoebe Hudson

Infinity is a floorless room without walls or ceiling. ~Author Unknown

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. ~Euclid

[He carries me]

Math pick-up lines and jokes:

I'm not being obtuse but you're acute girl.

I'll love you from here to infinity.

Honey, you're sweeter than 3.14.

You fascinate me more than the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.

My love for you is like the slope of a concave up function because it is always increasing.

You and I would add up better than a Riemann sum.

Top Reasons to Not Turn in Your Math Homework:

I have a solar powered calculator and it was cloudy.

I was watching the World Series and got tied up trying to prove that it converged.

I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook. I couldn't actually reach it. (I reached half way, and then half of that, and then ...)

I couldn't figure out whether i am the square root of negative one or i is the square root of negative one.

It was Einstein's birthday and pi day and we had this big celebration! (This only works for March 14)

I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.


Pi Jokes

Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter?
A: Pumpkin pi.

Q: What do you get when you take a bovine and divide its circumference by its diameter?
A: Cow pi.

Q: What do you get when you take green coagulated milk and divide its circumference by its diameter?
A: Moon pi.

Q:What do you get when you take a native Alaskan and divide its circumference by its diameter?
A: Eskimo pi.

Q:What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter?
A: Pi in the sky.

Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice cream by its diameter?
A: Pi a'la mode.

Ten Commandments of Mathematics
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1. Thou shalt read Thy problem.

2. Whatsoever Thou doest to one side of ye equation, Do ye also to the other.

3. Thou must use Thy "Common Sense",
else Thou wilt have flagpoles 9,000 feet in height, yea ... even fathers younger than sons.

4. Thou shalt ignore the teachings of false prophets to do work in Thy head.

5. When Thou knowest not, Thou shalt look it up, and if Thy search still elude Thee, Then Thou shalt ask the all-knowing teacher.

6. Thou shalt master each step before putting Thy heavy foot down on the next.

7. Thy correct answer does not prove that Thou hast worked Thy problem correctly. This argument convincest none, least of all, Thy teacher.

8. Thou shalt first see that Thou hast copied Thy problem correctly before bearing false witness that the answer book lieth.

9. Thou shalt look back even unto Thy youth and remember Thy arithmetic.

10. Thou shalt learn, speak, write, and listen correctly in the language of mathematics, and verily A's and B's shall follow Thee even unto graduation.

[He carries me]

hope i haven't offended anyone!!

[prov31girl]

:rotfl: :thatsfunny: :haha:

You're too much girl!!

[Richard]

I'm an engineer and I hate maths (you guys call it math, though - right?)

It is indeed the work of the devil, but every cloud has a silver lining as they say.

It has spawned the development of calculators, reference tables and other useful aids for my fellow math-phobics!

[He carries me]

well, engineering uses a lot of maths doesn't it, richard?



ok, here are some more math jokes -- these had me laughing out loud (literally)
[url="http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Div/Winchester/jhhs/math/humor/mthjokes.html"]http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Div/Winchester/jh...r/mthjokes.html[/url]

:haha: :cheer: :haha: