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Funny things that happen when you're doing maths

The funniest thing I can remember is from when we were learning logarithms, solving equations etc. At one point someone says "We've been saying drop your logs for half an hour and no one has noticed" Then we all had a good giggle.

Another one was at a party and someone said "Hey, we should be revising maths" and someone else says "I can't, I've had a drink. Remember, don't drink and derive"

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Reply 1

theultimate

probability : keep tossing (a coin) till you get head(s)

Reply 2

cnwillis

Just in general with functions and my maths teacher spent the whole lesson saying "Well when you f it" and we were all in hysterics and she had no idea why...

Reply 3

Creole

When first coming across the factorial notation, just shouting it instead. So you just heard people shouting "TWO!" "N!".

Reply 4

turgon

Once I heard a friend behind me giggling uncontrollably for around 5 minutes. When I asked him why, he pointed to a question saying..."find the curve y=x"..... and said it says find curvey. Not really funny, but we all ended up laughing all lesson. Another time we read a C1 formula sheet with the word mensuration over it, a boy then asked the teacher how often questions come up whch require us to menstruate in the exam..

Reply 5

Glutamic Acid

I solve (1 - p)^11 = 0.05 using logarithms. :s-smilie:

Or somethings I'm reading a maths question and it seems a bit dirty, I just start laughing.

Reply 6

Jake22

I remember when a lecturer was talking about binary relations and properties thereof...

general binary relations are normally notated by a tilde i.e. '~' but most people call it a twiddle.

I think people were giggling when the lecturer was saying that a relation ~ on a set

S

was reflexive iff x 'twiddles itself'

\forall x \in S

Reply 7

Usar

When my lecturer started talking about semi-latus rectums.

Reply 8

M.A.H

when we were doing transformations our teacher would say ''thataway'' i couldnt stop laughing and the other maths teacher would treat the lesson as if its some kind of gameshow

"Ok, class, part A!"

For any married couple who are members of a squash club, the probability that the husband has a degree is 5/3 and the probability that the wife has a degree is 3/2. The probability that the husband has a degree given that his wife has a degree is 9/11.

I saw my friend writing P(H n W) = ... I asked him to say that out aloud.

Probability of a Husband AND a Wife, haha. Then I attempted to draw a venn diagram with events H and W, and we pointed and laughed at their intersection.

or when someone (who isn't exactly brilliant at maths or reading english) is forced to read out to the class a question that starts off like this "Samantha's age is double the age of her sister........"

or the word 'asymptote' being said in a strong Indian accent.

Reply 11

HCD

I remember when we were doing an M2 question about trapeze artists. They are flying towards each other and then they "embrace each other", they "coalesce". One was male, one female. Such comments as "I bet they did!" were abundant. :biggrin:

Reply 12

.Adrian.

Ye we had the logarithm one psml

Teacher said lets all take logs, and like 5 of us just went, can we go to the toilet please :P

funny lesson :biggrin:

Reply 13

icapturethecastle

our teacher had a random accent last year, and instead of saying 'factors' she'd say 'fucters' lol...

ooh..and in mechanics when we did retardation ...lol

Reply 14

ShaolinTemple

It's not actually maths but it's related.

My friend asks the teahcer for a pencil because he never brings one to lesson. The teacher gives him one. My friend looks at it and complains that it's blunt. Teacher says, "That's why I gave you it."

I was playing basketball and was complaining how flat (the arc upon release) my friend's shots were. We both do maths so I said your shot is like a y = 0, no wait it's like a negative parabola. =O

Reply 15

x7xemilyx7x

These aren't to do with maths itself, but in our class someone would always spray deodrant because we had some people with bad B.O problems in there. Anyway this one occasion the teacher told this lad to open the window so he did after the teacher left. Then the teacher went out the room for a minute. During this time a girl who thought she was IT and acted hard came in and shut the window. At this point i decided to spray around because the room stunk. The teacher then returned, had a good shout at the lad because the window was still shut (i don't know who rattled his cage but he was like a monster) He then shouted at the girl who came in and thought it was her who sprayed. He mentioned something about her trying to poison everyone with mustard gas and gave a 10 minute lecture about people with asthma. I was sat there in hysterics for the rest of the class.

Another famous quote from that legendary maths teacher was 'we'll deal with equipment failures later' LOL

You probably don't find this funny, but if you had the experiences you would :wink:

Reply 16

markdr

tami*

ooh..and in mechanics when we did re tardation ...lol

Oh, that was a constant source of hilarity in GCSE Physics, let me tell you.

Reply 17

Bw446

I'd missed my further maths lesson where we had started imaginary numbers so went to my normal maths teacher to ask about them so I wasn't behind. any way...most of the questions involved something along the lines of (a+bj) ... and everytime he read the imaginary part he'd start to laugh....

Reply 18

Nefelige

Bad mathematician joke: How many kids does bolzano have?

At least one...

It is the most ridiculus joke of all times, but somehow the whole class ended up laughing