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"For all the advances in medicine, there is still
no cure for the common birthday."
- Senator John Glenn
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Teacher: What is 2k + k?
Student: 3000!
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Three statisticians go hunting. When they see a rabbit, the first
one shoots, missing it on the left. The second one shoots and
misses it on the right. The third one shouts: "We've hit
it!"
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Math problems? Call 1-800-[(10x)(13i)2]-
[sin(xy)/2.362x].
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Q: How can you tell that a mathematician is
extroverted? A: When talking to you, he looks at your shoes
instead of at his.
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Q: Do you already know the latest stats
joke? A: Probably...
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If I have seen farther than others, it is
because I was standing on the shoulders of
giants. -- Isaac Newton
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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on
my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson
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There are three kinds of people in the world; those who can count
and those who can't.
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Q: How do you tell that you are in the hands of
the Mathematical Mafia?
A: They make you an offer that you can't
understand.
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Q: how many times can you subtract 7 from 83,
and what is left afterwards?
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A: I can subtract it as many times as I want, and it leaves 76 every
time.
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Limp Bizkit says &*#% on its latest single 42 times. If MTV plays
the song 18 times a day, how many 13-year-old boys will buy they album in a 6-week period?
Real World Problems
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Suzie went to A & F and bought 3 pairs of Jeans at $107 each. Then she bought 4 pairs of Guess jeans
at $78 each. Calculate the percentage change in her
personal popularity from May to June.
Real World Problems
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For 4 weeks Johnny’s science class has been devoted to practice drills for the state reading exam. If he
takes 2 end-of –grade tests over 3 days, how many Disney movies
will he see in class during the last 2 weeks of school?
Real World Problems
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Yes, we have Chicken Soup for the Math
Teacher’s Soul. The price is $475 ÷ 23
x .0182 + 4x ÷ $73.999999999 +2.
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Q. Why did 5 eat 6?
A. Because 7 8 9.
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"Math class is tough." -- Barbie Doll (1992)
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"Geometry is just plane fun."
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"Decimals have a point."
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"Arithmetic is being able to count up to
twenty without taking off your shoes." -- Mickey Mouse
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"To infinity and beyond."
– Buzz Lightyear
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"Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and
think. How much water can 55 elephants
drink?" -- Dr. Seuss
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"42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot." --Steven Wright
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"We use only 10% of our brains… Imagine how
smart we would be if we used the other 60%!"
-- Ellen DeGeneres
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"Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't
convince my teachers that many of my answers were
meant ironically." – Calvin Trillin (humorist)
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“This one's tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers,
like eleventeen...“
- Hobbes
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“I don't need to study! I don't need to learn!
I can always get by on my good looks and charm!”
-- Calvin
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I'd explain it… but there's a lot of math.
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You can present the material, but you can't
make me care.
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How far do you run if you hit a homerun?
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How far do you run if you hit a homerun?
360 feet
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Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old
Milton Sirotta in 1940?
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Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old
Milton Sirotta in 1940?A: Googol
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What's a polygon with four unequal
sides called?
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What's a polygon with four unequal
sides called?
A quadrilateral.
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Q: What did one math book say to the other
math book?
A: Wow, have I got problems!
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.
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When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit.
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October 10 is National Metric
Day.
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Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320
ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.
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National Pi Day is March 14, at
1:59. (3/14 1:59)
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There are 2,598,960 five-card hands possible in a 52-
card deck of cards.
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An inch of snow falling evenly on
one acre of ground is equivalent to
about 2,715 gallons of water.
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If each count were one second long, it would
take about twelve days to count to a million
and thirty-two years to count to a billion.
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A manned rocket reaches the moon in
less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the
length of England.
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There are ten human body parts that are only three
letters long:
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There are ten human body parts that are only three
letters long:
Eye, Ear, Leg, Arm, Jaw, Gum, Toe, Lip, Hip and Rib.
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A normal rain drop falls at
about 7 miles per hour.
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Human hair is estimated to grow
at 0.00000001 miles per hour.
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The night sky appears full of stars, but actually only about 3,000 stars are visible to the naked
eye.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for
1/100th of a second.