Virginia Mathematics Teacher Fall 2016

Melani A. Loney, Ed.S. Prog Manager Military Fam Old Dominion University mloney@odu.edu

Joanna K. Garner Research Associate Professor Old Dominion University jkgarner@odu.edu

Math Jokes

The math teacher could never figure out why their students kept calling their cat mean. All it ever did was mu at them.

Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet.

Jimmy was in the lunch room, ready to take a bite of his six inch sandwich, when it slipped from his hands. His math teacher just sighed and shook his head. Jimmy needed to work on his subtraction. Math problems? Call 1-800-[(10 x )(13 i ) 2 ]-[sin( xy )/2.362 x ]. The United States celebrated it’s bicentennial 1976, but in the year 2090, it will celebrate it’s first pi-centennial.

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