What Would You Like To Know?
(Or, What Doesn't Make Any Sense To You?)
Not a new math topic, but a request. I know some of the topics I intended to write about. I'll get to things like proportions and conversions. I also need to do some character arcs and an antagonist. I'll get there.... eventually.
But maybe you want a specific topic. Even the last one posted of "Only Addition and Only One" came out of a VERY LONG lunch. It hadn't occurred to me that someone might get comfort in knowing there's only one math operation; that the others were merely variations on addition. It also hadn't occurred to me that everyone else in the world didn't understand that you only add 1 (or -1). So what doesn't make sense to you? I'm open to any requests.
Math joke, very old, not very politically correct, but I like it:
There were 3 squaws. Each had a boy. The squaws were very competitive, both among themselves and about their boys. They decided to have an archery contest.
The son of the squaw of the lion hide made 1 bullseye. The son of the squaw of the elephant hide made 2 bullseyes. Alas, the son of the squaw of the hippopotamus hide made 0 bullseyes.
Then the mothers had their turns. The elephant hide squaw made 2 bullseyes. The lion hide squaw failed completely. The hippopotamus squaw made 3 bullseyes.
The elephant and lion women looked downcast as the other said, "The squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the other two squaws of the other two hides."

4 Comments:
snort good joke.
I have no questions. Doesn't mean I'm not totally clueless about math. Just means I've given up caring. :-)
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Anonymous, At
4:56 PM
That's so bad it's actually funny.
I vote for percentages.
Also, while you're on the subject of hippos, a few of the more useful geometry equations.
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McB, At
12:43 PM
There are many things I want to know about math, particularly statistics. The latest thing I looked up was how do you test normality. No really, this is a math/statistics thing.
Why I have a feeling that I'm not your target audience? :+)
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Theresa, At
7:59 AM
Can I throw in a sorta kinda political math joke?
A certain politician was listening to reports about the war in Afghanistan. The speaker concluded with a mention of the losses that the U.N. had recently experienced, to wit "three Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"That's terrible!" the politician exclaimed in a deeply shocked voice. Then he paused. "Er... exactly how many is a Brazilian?"
Oh all right. It was the best I could do. I'm working on this "cheerfulness" stuff.
By
The Merry, At
11:04 PM
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