What I really dislike is when facebook posts use the equal sign symbol in appropriately. I’ve led staff development on this topic numerous times. I started reading everything I could get my hands on related to relational thinking. Thanks to Terry Wyberg showing me problems like 17 + 8 = _ + 9 fifteen+ years ago and telling me how many students say the missing value is 25 because they see the equal sign as an operation to do what is to the left of the equals sign, I’ve banned using the word ‘equals’ in my classroom and instead we say ‘is the same as’. This one is like nails on a chalk board for me. This one kind of bugs me because shouldn’t it be HOOO not HO HO HO. On Facebook and on other platforms I find people like to push the boundaries of what is appropriate using mathematics. For example I said they could tell me that they wanted to kick my Angle, Side, Side. That year I also taught them acceptable ways to swear in my classroom. The rest of the year I would catch them telling people they had a lot in common with Pi. My students laughed because some of them caught what I was trying to say. I am pretty sure he had no idea I had just told him he was being irrational. He stopped, looked at me, and walked out of my classroom. X, you have a lot in common with Pi right now”. I don’t remember what he was yelling about, but I do remember I yelled loudly at him (those of you who know me know how loud my voice is) “Mr. I approached the teacher and whispered, why don’t you take this into the hallway. I’d like to dedicate #6 to my grade school boy classmates who found this extremely funny.ġ5 years ago a kind of crazy social studies teacher walked into my room in the middle of a lesson and started yelling at a student. #6 Using math to say inappropriate things at school. Here is a video of 30 bad math puns in 2 minutes if you need more. Don’t they have a calculator on their phone? Calculators now days know the order of operations. It always surprises me how many people do get this problem incorrect. All of these posts come with hundreds of comments with peoples guesses. They all say something like “90% of the people get this problem wrong” (I always wonder how this is calculated and what the sample size was or if it is a made up statistic) OR “I bet you can’t get this problem correct”. I can not count the number of these posts on Facebook I’ve been tagged in. #9 I bet you don’t know the Order of Operations.
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#10 The most frequent thing I’m tagged in on Facebook.
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I smiled and laughed the first few times, but it has been harder to fake my amusement when it is the hundredth time I’ve seen it, though I try to do so because for whomever sent this it is often their first time seeing it. Well before Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all other social media platforms, this little ditty was emailed to me hundreds of times. I think this is the one where it all started for me. Without further ado, in no particular order.
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#Simple math puns free#
Enjoy and feel free to tweet me or email me at with items I may have missed. Often their tag line with the photos/comics/videos/articles come with the following line: “I saw this and thought of you.” In honor of all the posts I’ve been tagged in over the years, here is my personal top 11 (or more) things you may have been tagged in if you are a math teacher. If so, than there is also a huge probability that since the emergence of social media platforms you have have been tagged numerous times with anything and everything related to mathematics by your friends not in the math business. My guess is if you are reading this than there is a HIGH probability you are also a math teacher or connected to the math teacher community in some way.
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Top 10 Math Facebook Posts (+ a few extra) “I saw this and thought of you.”