A mom and dad were worried about their son not wanting
to learn math at the school he was in, so they decided to send him to a Catholic
school. After the first day of school, their son comes racing into the house,
goes straight into his room and slams the door shut. Mom and dad are a little
worried about this and go to his room to see if he is okay. They find him
sitting at his desk doing his homework. The boy keeps doing that for the rest of
the year. At the end of the year the son brings home his report card and gives
it to his mom and dad. Looking at it they see under math an A+.
Mom and dad are very happy and ask the son, "What changed your mind about
learning math?"
The son looked at mom and dad and said, "Well, on the first day when I walked
into the classroom, I saw a guy nailed to the plus sign at the back of the room
behind the teacher's desk and I knew they meant business."
The parents were very disappointed in the grades that their son brought home.
"The only consolation I can find in these awful grades," lamented the father,
"is that I know he never cheated during his exams."
"Dad, can you write in the dark?"
"I think so. What is it you want me to write?"
"Your name on this report card."
A little girl came home from school and said to her mother, "Mommy, today in
school I was punished for something that I didn't do."
The mother exclaimed, "But that's terrible! I'm going to have a talk with your
teacher about this ... by the way, what was it that you didn't do?"
The little girl replied, "My homework."
The child comes home from his first day at school.
Mother asks, "What did you learn today?"
The kid replies, "Not enough. I have to go back tomorrow."
Little Johnny returns from school and says he got an F in arithmetic.
"Why?" asks the father.
"The teacher asked 'How much is 2x3?' and I said '6'"
"But that's right!"
"Then she asked me 'How much is 3x2?'"
"What's the fucking difference?"
"That's exactly what I said!"
A teacher was having trouble teaching arithmetic to one little boy. So she said,
"if you reached in your right pocket and found a nickel, and you reached in your
left pocket and found another one, what would you have?"
"Somebody else's pants."
Teacher: "Sam, what is the outside of a tree called?"
Sam: "I don�t know."
Teacher: "Bark, Sam, bark."
Sam: "Bow, wow, wow!"
The teacher came up with a good problem. "Suppose," she asked the
second-graders, "there were a dozen sheep and six of them jumped over a fence.
How many would be left?"
"None," answered little Norman.
"None? Norman, you don't know your arithmetic."
"Teacher, you don't know your sheep. When one goes, they all go!"
Teacher: If I give you two rabbits and two rabbits and another two rabbits, how
many rabbits have you got?
Paddy: Seven!
Teacher: No, listen carefully again. If I give you two rabbits and two rabbits
and another two rabbits, how many rabbits have you got?
Paddy: Seven!
Teacher: Let's try this another way. If I give you two apples and two apples and
another two apples, how many apples have you got?
Paddy: Six.
Teacher: Good. Now if I give you two rabbits and two rabbits and another two
rabbits, how many rabbits have you got?
Paddy: Seven!
Teacher: How on earth do you work out that three lots of two rabbits is seven?
Paddy: I've already got one rabbit at home now!
Teacher: Milton, how can you prove the earth is round?
Milton: I can't. Besides, I never said it was.
Billy and Willy were at Sunday school studying about Noah's ark. On the way
home, Willy asked, "Do you think Noah did much fishing?"
"How could he?" said Billy. "He only had two worms".
The teacher is droning away in the classroom when he notices a student sleeping
way up in the back row. The teacher shouts to the sleeping student's neighbor,
"Hey wake that student up!"
The neighbor yells back, "You put him to sleep, you wake him up!"
Teacher: Johnny, you know you can't sleep in my class.
Johnny: I know. But maybe if you were just a little quieter, I could.
"If there are any idiots in the room, will they please stand up" said the
sarcastic teacher. After a long silence, one freshman rose to his feet.
"Now then mister, why do you consider yourself an idiot?" enquired the teacher
with a sneer.
"Well, actually I don't," said the student, "but I hate to see you standing up
there all by yourself."
The science teacher lecturing his class in biology said, "Now I'll show you this
frog in my pocket." He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a chicken
sandwich. He looked puzzled for a second, thought deeply, and said, "That's
funny. I distinctly remember eating my lunch."
The teacher brings a statue of Venus into class and asks, "What do you like best
about it, class? Let's start with you, Robert."
"The artwork," says Robert.
"Very good. And you, Peter?"
"Her tits!" says Peter.
"Peter, get out! Go stand in the hall," responds the teacher with disgust. "And
you, Johnny?"
"I'm leaving, teacher, I'm leaving..."
"Isn't the principal a dummy!" said a boy to a girl.
"Say, do you know who I am?" asked the girl.
"No."
"I'm the principal's daughter."
"And do you know who I am?" asked the boy.
"No," she replied.
"Thank goodness!"
"Haven't I seen your face before?" a judge demanded, looking down at the
defendant.
"You have, Your Honor," the man answered hopefully. "I gave your son violin
lessons last winter."
"Ah, yes," recalled the judge. "Twenty years!"
Teacher: Why are you late, Joseph?
Joseph: Because of a sign down the road.
Teacher: What does a sign have to do with your being late?
Joseph: The sign said, "School Ahead, Go Slow!"
Teacher: Tim, you missed school yesterday, didn't you?
Tim: Not a bit!
Teacher: How do you spell "dog"?
Pupil: d, o, g, enter.
"I've just had the most awful time," said a boy to his friends. "First I got
angina pectoris, then arteriosclerosis. Just as I was recovering, I got
psoriasis. They gave me hypodermics, and to top it all, tonsillitis was followed
by appendectomy."
"Wow! How did you pull through?" sympathized his friends.
"I don't know," the boy replied. "Toughest spelling test I ever had."
A little kid's in school, taking a true-false test and he's flipping a coin. At
the end of the test he's flipping the coin again. The teacher says, "What are
you doing?" He says, "Checking my answers."
Math teacher by Deddi Shy
What do you get when you add 2 apples to 3 apples?
A senior high school math problem.
The Evolution of a Math Problem
1950:
A lumberjack sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5
of this price. What is his profit?
1960 (traditional math):
A lumberjack sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5
of this price, or in other words $80. What is his profit?
1970 (new math):
A lumberjack exchanges a set L of lumber for a set M of money. The cardinality
of set M is 100, and each element is worth $1. Make 100 dots representing the
elements of set M. The set C is a subset of set M, of cardinality 80. What is
the cardinality of the set P of profits, if P is the difference set MC?
1980 (equal opportunity math):
A lumberjack sells a truckload of wood for $100. His or her cost of production
is $80, and his or her profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
1990 (outcome based education):
By cutting down beautiful forest trees, a lumberperson makes $20. What do you
think of his way of making a living? In your group, discuss how the forest birds
and squirrels feel, and write an essay about it.
1995 (entrepreneurial math):
By laying off 402 of its lumberjacks, a company improves its stock price from
$80 to $100. How much capital gain per share does the CEO make by exercising his
stock options at $80? Assume capital gains are no longer taxed, because this
encourages investment.
1998 (motivational math):
A logging company exports its wood-finishing jobs to its Indonesian subsidiary
and lays off the corresponding half of its US workers (the higher-paid half). It
clear-cuts 95% of the forest, leaving the rest for the spotted owl, and lays off
all its remaining US workers. It tells the workers that the spotted owl is
responsible for the absence of fellable trees and lobbies Congress for exemption
from the Endangered Species Act. Congress instead exempts the company from all
federal regulation. What is the return on investment of the lobbying?
The answer to the problem was "log(1+x)". A student copied the answer from the
student next to him, but didn't want to make it obvious that he was cheating, so
he changed the answer slightly, to "timber(1+x)".
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam. I looked into the soul
of the boy sitting next to me.
Woody Allen
The ways to grade the final exams
Dept of Statistics:
All grades are plotted along the normal bell curve.
Dept of Psychology:
Students are asked to blot ink in their exam books, close them and turn them in.
The professor opens the books and assigns the first grade that comes to mind.
Dept of History:
All students get the same grade they got last year.
Dept of Religion:
Grade is determined by God.
Dept of Philosophy:
What is a grade?
Law School:
Students are asked to defend their position of why they should receive an A.
Dept of Logic:
If and only if the student is present for the final and the student has
accumulated a passing grade then the student will receive an A else the student
will not receive an A.
Dept of Computer Science:
Random number generator determines grade.
Music Department:
Each student must figure out his grade by listening to the instructor play the
corresponding note (+ and - would be sharp and flat respectively).
Dept of Physical Education:
Everybody gets an A.
Schools We Don't want to Attend
The Leona Helmsley School of Tax Preparation
The Mike Tyson Charm School
The William Kennedy Smith Dating Service
The Saddam Hussein Military Academy
The Charles Keating Chair in Business Ethics
The Don King Barber College
The Pee-wee Herman Advanced Sexuality Course
The Louis Farrakhan School of Diplomacy.
When you walk into the classroom and say good morning...
When they say good morning back, it's Freshmen.
When they put their newspapers down and open their books, it's Sophomores.
When they look up so they can see the instructor over the tops of the
newspapers, it's juniors.
When they put their feet up on the desks and keep reading, it's seniors.
When they write it down, it's graduate students.
Questions you Hope your Pupils won't Ask you
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of its bottle?
Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?
Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains
real lemons?
If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the
doors?
If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height,
what would happen?
If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on
the headlights?
If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold
tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
You know how most packages say "Open here"? What is the protocol if the package
says, "Open somewhere else"?
You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes? Why can't
they make the whole plane out of the same substance?
What do you plant to grow a seedless watermelon?
When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?
How teachers do it...
Teachers do it with class.
Teachers do it 50 times after class.
Teachers do it with boys and girls.
Teachers make you do it till you get it right.
You Might Be a Schoolteacher if...
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you have no time for a life from August to June.
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you want to slap the next person who says, "Must be nice to work from 8 to 3 and
have your summers free!"
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when out in public you feel the urge to talk to strange children and correct
their behavior.
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you refer to adults as "boys and girls."
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you encourage your spouse by telling them they are a "good helper."
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you've ever had your profession slammed by someone who would never dream of
doing your job.
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meeting a child's parents instantly answers the question, "Why is this kid like
this?"
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you believe "extremely annoying" should have its own box on the report card.
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you know hundred good reasons for being late.
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you don't want children of your own because there isn't a name you can hear that
wouldn't elevate your blood pressure.
How many schoolteachers does it take to change a light bulb?
None. Anything not completed during the lesson is added to the homework.
How many students does it take to change a light bulb?
None. Light bulb changing isn't in the course notes.
"Is it worth any bonus marks?"