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What do you call a group of dudes who love math? Algebras!
Alright, I know that was corny, pandas. But this list is for all math lovers because below, we’ve got some math memes that not just anyone will understand.
We took a trip to the Note Library Facebook page, which shares hilarious memes about math, to round up some of their funniest posts, so channel your inner Pythagoras and enjoy this high-brow humor. And don't forget to upvote the pics you would have loved to see in your former math classrooms!
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#1
Infinity Fails Math Class
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#2
Rooting for Geometry
Mary Peace 2 years ago
You might end up liking math a tiny bit more. . . just a fraction more!
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#3
Forever Young Energy
Swoo 2 years ago
Yeah, new borns the lot of them! barely able to walk! (I have a co-worker - an intern - born in 2000, so cute!) ;)
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SCP 4666 2 years ago
People born in 2000 looking at people not born in 2000 4jycnm-235...c0b5e7.jpg 
Math tends to have a bad reputation in the eyes of students. Many find it boring, confusing, frustrating and/or useless (before they realize how much they actually will need it when they become adults). Apparently, over 100 million students across the globe even fail a math class every single year. But according to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey, over half of Americans say they actually did enjoy learning about math and science in school.
If you were one of those students, from the US or anywhere else around the globe, who couldn’t help but be fascinated by geometry, algebra, trigonometry and more, we hope you’ll enjoy this humorous list. Note Library shares a variety of memes that find the comedy in equations and come up with brilliant puns about mathematics. I have to admit that I certainly do not understand all of the jokes on this list, as it’s been many years since I’ve stepped foot in a math class, but I’m sure you pandas are much smarter than I. So enjoy!
#4
Instant Royalty Vibes
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
My name isn’t even common so when my name came for the first time in a math problem, all my classmates congratulated me on that accomplishment
not your average weirdo 2 years ago (edited)
Never happened to me. My first name is Akari Kennedy. I wish I got watermelons.
Itz-Nova (Ve / Ver) 2 years ago
Whenever my science class watches science-related videos, it's always by NOVA, so my friends will whip around to stare at me until I look at them and we always chuckle. It's the greatest thing ever
Minsa Nidhi 1 year ago
One time when I was eight we were doing maths and one question said that I was 6! 🤬😡😠😡🤬😤😤😡😠🤬😤🤬🤬🤬
Mary Peace 2 years ago
I don't even recall this use-of-names-thing being a thing at school. I don't know if that's because I'm in the UK, or my school didn't do it.
#5
Only Pi Lovers Get This
Soton_Sherpa 2 years ago
They're going to be very small slices if we all get it. ☹
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Mary Peace 1 year ago
I imagine they measure their ingredients very accurately.
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Pista Hufnagel 2 years ago
Like a PIzza.. where the "a" is the height and the "z" is its radius... PI * z * z * a. . the result is?
#6
Trigonometry Over History
down quark 2 years ago
Sine divided by cosine (abbreviated as sin and cos respectively) equals the tangent (tan). sin/cos=tan
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RandomEpiBioPerson 2 years ago
Honestly, this is my favorite one on the list, and unlike multiple others that are math related but mostly involve just addition or subtraction, while this one is actually clever.
Alexander MacDonald 1 year ago
it's funny because sin / cos = tan. Therefore, Ti(sin/cos)ic = Titanic
Once we reach adulthood, it becomes increasingly clear why it was so necessary for us to learn math as children. It’s everywhere! Calculating tax in your head while approaching the checkout line in a grocery store or calculating how much to tip the server for your dinner out. Budgeting how much to spend on groceries this month and keeping track of how much milk to use every day to ensure it lasts the entire week. No matter where we look, we can’t avoid math!
When it comes to some of the most important reasons why we need to have an understanding of math, Prodigy explains on their site that it actually promotes healthy brain function. Frequently solving math problems and improving our math skills is actually like giving our brains a workout, which keeps them healthy and functioning in tip top shape.
#7
Math Burn Battle
Patrick Linnen 2 years ago
The Constant of Integration is for the times you have to do another integration and need something to attach the independent variable
Joshua Quek 1 year ago
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899
Math Nerd 1729 2 years ago
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196... That's 200 decimal places! :)
Janelle Collard 2 years ago (edited)
Math + I were never close friends. Then I had a stroke. All gone!!
#8
Small and chill vs Big and intense
Brendan (banned for downvotes) 2 years ago
I always felt sorry for 'x' in the alphabet. It's treated like the runt of the litter. However, which other letter has such titillation when written three times in a row?
Kimbowa 2 years ago
It’s naive but I still say mixing letters and numbers together is just wrong.
Ducklord88 2 years ago
Was it just me or as a kid did all yall think x was like the coolest letter ever
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
Not really..... x&y could easily be substituted for any others. Much more gangsta as letters, especially when they show up without being invited or in stripper names.
Zoe the jellyfish (she/her) 2 years ago
I’ve always wondered why algebra has letters why not just use question marks?
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
What until Calculus when they throw in Greek letters
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Graphing with Horns
Math is also important for us to learn because it improves our problem-solving skills. As silly as word problems seemed when we were children (Who would possibly need to be transporting 17 watermelons home?), they actually were preparing us for our adult lives. Through working out all of those tedious problems in school, we learned how to extract important information and turn it into a solution. “When students understand algorithms and problems more deeply, they can decode the facts and more easily solve the issue,” the Prodigy team writes. “Real-life solutions are found with math and logic.”
#10
Overthinking Simple Math
We all have a friend like this.
San 2 years ago
Mf doesn't know what what 3×4 I but knows how to calculate factorial of 12 what the f
detective miller's hat 2 years ago
Just scrolling through this whole list like I'm actually going to understand any of it xD
PlatinumTheCat 2 years ago
I hate it when it’s so simple, you can solve it easily, yet in tests it’s still, show your work, write it all down, and do it in the strange ways that they make you do it instead of the easier ways
#11
Going Back To Basics
Mark Howell 2 years ago
My 1st calculator was my dads old work one. Hed also kept the reciept from when the company bought it in 1971. It cost £140, only did +, -, x, /; took 4 aAA bateries which lasted 1 hour. It looked like a brick, but it is still going strong 52 years later.
Fakus nameus 2 years ago
In elementary school they get made when you bring a calculator to class. In high school, you literally get a lower grade for not bringing it
detective miller's hat 2 years ago
We all had to get one of those fancy calculators in high school and literally the only thing I knew how to do with it was play Tetris.
#12
Tape Trick to the Rescue
Nadine Debard 2 years ago
Yes, I do this too (adding unneeded parentheses in maths formulas, just in case)
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
Me as well…however, I tend to do a lot of commas, maybe where they are not necessary, but I want them to be there, nonetheless, to indicate a pause in the way my fingers carry my thoughts onto the page…I also tend to use ellipsis to indicate where my thoughts trail off…
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Math supports logical reasoning and analytical thinking, two things we all need. When we have a great understanding of mathematical concepts, we can use them for more than just manipulating numbers. They can also help us “see the pathways to a solution,” Prodigy explains. “Equations and word problems need to be examined before determining the best methods for solving them. And in many cases, there’s more than one way to get to the right answer.” You may not love math, but logical reasoning and math go hand in hand and will help you in all aspects of your life.
#13
Mind-Blown Moments
Rahul Pawa 2 years ago
When my 5yo wants to give me a hard math problem to solve he says something like "what's 1 billion plus 1 billion?" As though adding the word billion instantly makes the problem harder.
UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
52! (52 factorial), googolplex, Tree3, Graham’s number. Truly large numbers are mind scrambling. https://youtu.be/GuigptwlVHo
David Paterson 2 years ago
Have you tried tetration, pentation, Ackerman function and Busy Bee yet?
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Karen Lyon 2 years ago
So true! Or that there is really no biggest number.....it's a lot like explaining to some 10 year olds there are numbers that are essentially less than zero.
#14
Maths, but Make It Art
#15
Friendship Math Crisis
Nayla Kanaan 2 years ago
The drivers ed teacher was like “6 months after you get your license you can drive 1 friend and a year after you get your license you can drive 3 friends” like back up dude bold of you to assume I have 3 friends
As we all know, math is incredibly important when it comes to balancing budgets and improving our personal financial literacy. Anything from doing your weekly grocery shopping to getting a loan to purchase your first car requires quite a bit of mathematical problem solving. As cool as it may have been during your school days to slack off during math class or ignore your teacher when they introduced new concepts, being a financially literate adult who knows they can always pay rent and afford to eat each month is way more impressive.
#16
Math Just Got Weird
A.M. Pierre 2 years ago
If you say it out loud, "thirty too" sounds like "thirty-two", which is the right answer to "What is 16 + 16?"
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#17
Function vs. Inverse: Spot the Difference
#18
Math Magic Fails
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
I tutor one kid that does this kind of stuff all the friggin time, always looking for shortcuts and clinging to things that might work in very specific circumstances.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
A broken clock is right twice a day, doesn't mean it works
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As with anything in life, humor allows us to have more fun, including math! Ilana Horn, creator of the Teaching/Math/Culture blog, wrote a piece in 2019 detailing how humor can be helpful in the classroom, and she noted that it can ease the tension that often finds its way into classrooms. Math class can be stressful, especially for students who don’t take to the subject easily or who are worried about their grades. Incorporating jokes, humor and memes can help humanize teachers and remind students that learning actually can be fun.
#19
Getting Fancy With It
Lawrencium 2 years ago
The watermark on the first panel makes it look like Pooh got a tattoo...
saw & order 2 years ago
X^2 could be written as XX, so X*X. It’s not perfect but it technically works
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Duolingobird 2 years ago
I learned about the human body so I actually know what up to the third panel means!
#20
Lost in equations
#21
Love Calculated Wrong
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
I'm weak in maths, but strong in semantics: I'd estimate correctly by inferring from the context (i.e. too many details = "this is not what it looks like")
“When we invite humor into math class, we also change the emotional tenor of what we are doing,” Horn writes on her blog. “Humor positively affects learning by releasing tension. When we laugh, we are often more at ease. Humor has even been shown to improve students’ performance on tests. Maybe laughing sessions can improve study sessions. Humor can build rapport, either with individual students or with a classroom community. I know a teacher who strategically looks for something to laugh at with each of his classes, so that they can have a shared inside joke.”
#22
Maths and Physics: The Sneaky Duo
devotedtodreams 2 years ago
Yup, this is why I never could get into Physics - too much Math (which I sucked at)! XD
detective miller's hat 2 years ago
Yep. I wasn't even able to take physics in high school, because you had to pass chemistry with a C or better. :/
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Colin 2 years ago
I went back to night school to do a physics class. The text book was American, so all imperial, but the class was in Canada so they understood metric. The teacher was a young fella (25 maybe). I was in my 30s at that time. First class I taught conversions because the teacher didn't know pounds to kilos, miles to kilometers, ounces, quarts etc
Zane Lumagrowl 2 years ago
See it's funny - I always loathed math but I loved physics so much! Probably because with physics there were a lot of ways to visualize what the numbers actually meant
#23
Math Class MVP
#24
Grains of Curiosity
Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
Many plus lots equals manylots (yes my maths is room temperature Detritus)
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
"People don't realize that "many" can be a number, as in: 1, 2, 3, many, many1, many2, many3, manymany, manymany1, ... " 😄
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Robert T 2 years ago
"My calculator doesn't work after it got wet" "Have you tried putting it in rice"
Kimbowa 2 years ago
My cooked rice is all clumped together. Have you tried putting it in rice?
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Humor in math class also encourages students to bring their personalities and identities into the classroom. “Who we are is fundamental to how we make sense of the world,” Horn explains. “When we have to leave part of ourselves at the door, we abandon crucial sensemaking resources.” And teaching students that math has nothing to do with being a person reinforces the idea that math is pointless and that students won’t ever use it in their real lives. Making the classroom more fun, with memes such as these, encourages students to be more involved and have a personal connection to mathematics.
#25
Alphabet Relationship Goals
Donut Overload 2 years ago
I’m so good at math, I could replace your X and you wouldn’t even need to know Y.
#26
Lost in Math Limits
Lesley Robinson 2 years ago
The first limit would be -infinity if x approached 8 from the left, and +infinity if x approached 8 from the right. So the limit as it is written doesn't exist.
NoCleverName 2 years ago
Thank you. Came here to say this. Glad I'm not the only one
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Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Gotta assume this is just a joke and never actually happened. Since I can't imagine a student getting far enough to be doing this sort of math and not understanding that's the infinity symbol.
Me. Just Me. 2 years ago
That pretty much sums up (no pun intended) my knowledge of limits. Once we started talking about limits, I knew failing calculus was in my destiny.
#27
Inverse Lab Partners
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
This brings me back to when I dissected a *gulp* cat in Anatomy and Biology of Vertebrates! 😢
Teresa Spanics 2 years ago
Pig fetuses and I remember that some had what looked like black grains inside them and those students had to look at the ones that did not have that.
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#28
Factorial Face-Off
tom qwerty 2 years ago
and then == is comparinga string or integer, its always the one mistake in my code
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#29
Curves Over Corners
Linde Van Den Berg 2 years ago
It's always one of them that is perfect, but then the other is always wonky!
Tiramisu 🇵🇸 2 years ago
its drives me crazy when no one can draw these right, it's not that hard!
Trainingfortheballetpotteh🇺🇦 2 years ago
uh yea it is!!! hopefully one day ill be able to raw it right lol.
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Tim Douglass 2 years ago
I finally learned to draw decent curly braces when I was tutoring computer programming. Lots of languages seem to love them!
#30
Crunch Time Calculus
Jessica Bertram 2 years ago
absolutely 💯 correct. waiting for everyone else, now
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#31
Big Energy, Small Math
Mr Spock 2 years ago
Pascal's Triangle. Same goes for (a+b)^3 or anything to the power of a doable exponent
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Math Problems and Mood Swings
Jeremy James 2 years ago
I think I had this exact problem on a test once. I gave the answer for x instead of GF then, and I did the same thing just now.
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#33
Complex Feelings Ahead
#34
Math Gone Wild
Michael Largey 2 years ago
With three unknowns and one equation, there is no numerical solution. You could solve for a variable. It's already solved for k. n = (1 + sin x)/k. x = arcsin(nk - 1). But the equation here is really just a set-up for the joke.
#35
Math Rebel Moves
Tiramisu 🇵🇸 2 years ago (edited)
help my brain can't comprehend four memes at once that work perfectly together
#36
Math Magic Moment
#37
Math Meltdown Moment
Ginny Weasley 2 years ago (edited)
Suppose x = 0.999… | 10x = 9.99…. | 10x = 9 + 0.999…. | 10x = 9 + x. | 9x = 9 | x = 1 | Therefore 1 = 0.999…
dinoz71 2 years ago
Ok. I'm lost on this one. Did the equal sign change it's meaning since I went to bed last night?
Rahul Pawa 2 years ago
Well, in algebra the multiplication symbol is often dropped when a variable is involved. They took this fact to write 5*4 as 54. Then did a bunch of math on that to come up with an incorrect statement.
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cartoon.ghostss 2 years ago
The issue here is that when using variables, if you put them next to each other, they're multiplied, so that would actually be a×b =a(b), which would be 5×4=5(4), which are the same thing written different ways
#38
Math Meets Reality Check
#39
Rethinking Old Lessons
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
It wasn't even taught in fifth grade, the school kept on changing the curriculum
#40
The Other Answer Exists
#41
Creative Curveball
Nadine Debard 2 years ago
I don't really get this one. Is it a derivative function that tends to zero?
RedPanda 2 years ago
The derivative of a constant (a number that is not something like 50x or 50x^2) is equal to 0
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#42
Infinity Just Got Flowery
#43
Pi Day Coffee Fix
Vinay Pai 2 years ago
"May I have a large container of coffee? Thank you verry muuuuuch"
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olivier FRESSE 2 years ago
In French ... 126 digits :-) Que j’aime à faire apprendre un nombre utile aux sages ! Glorieux Archimède, artiste ingénieux, Toi de qui Syracuse aime encore la gloire, Soit ton nom conservé par de savants grimoires ! Jadis, mystérieux, un problème bloquait Tout l’admirable procédé, l’œuvre grandiose Que Pythagore découvrit aux anciens Grecs. O, quadrature ! Vieux tourment du philosophe ! Insoluble rondeur, trop longtemps vous avez Défié Pythagore et ses imitateurs. Comment intégrer l’espace bien circulaire ? Former un triangle auquel il équivaudra ? Nouvelle invention : Archimède inscrira Dedans un hexagone, appréciera son aire, Fonction du rayon. Pas trop ne s’y tiendra Dédoublera chaque élément antérieur ; Toujours de l’orbe calculée approchera ; Définira limite ; enfin, l’arc, le limiteur De cet inquiétant cercle, ennemi trop rebelle ! Professeur, enseignez son problème avec zèle !
#44
Maths Always Wins
Susan Robinson 2 years ago
Our physics class, along with calculus was grade 12, or senior year in high school
#45
Trig Wars: Ancient Math Duel
Trainingfortheballetpotteh🇺🇦 2 years ago
omg we were learining about the pythagorean theorem in math like a week ago!
LavenderHippoInAJar 2 years ago
Cool! Did you prove it? If so, which period did you use?
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Overcomplicating the Obvious
Nadine Debard 2 years ago
Oh it took me very long to get your pun! Congrats!
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Basic Math Blunders
#48
Brain Fumes Activated
Crazy Cookie 2 years ago
Seeing your profile pic scared the **** out of me
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Tangential Thinking
#51
Math Lovers Only
RandomX123 2 years ago
int(2x) = 2*(x^2)/2 + C = x^2 + C. Putting in the values, it's [13^2] - [10^2] = 169 - 100 = 69
#52
Lost Between The Lines
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Auntriarch 2 years ago
I'm coming back to this later today when the maths bunnies have explained the ones I didn't get
Brendan (banned for downvotes) 2 years ago (edited)
*laughing with my friends, pretending to understand the joke*
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Several of these hit on what I hate about American college (and higher secondary ed) physics: It is presented as purely applied math. I believe this is largely because engineering majors outnumber physics majors by some ungodly proportion, but Physics 101/102 is mechanics and electromagnetism and no other topic. The subject that is literally how the universe works, and to encourage wonder, we teach calculating vectors, which is possibly the only topic more utterly, mind-crushingly boring than the seven simple tools (the basis of 9th-grade physics).
Bec 2 years ago
Yes, you can do quite a bit without getting into the nitty gritty of the math.
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The f-1(x) memes didn't make sense because the inverse of x reflects it on the line y=x so it would just make the picture sideways and not inverted. Still liked these though
ThreeAngryLlamas 2 years ago
I definitely failed math at school, and had no trouble with these. BP titles are often condescending AF.
Hey! 2 years ago
Bought a similar clock for my oldest son when he graduated HS with 100% in Chem, Physics, and Math. There are different kinds out there. Can't remember which one I bought. Math-Clock...e28c4b.jpg 
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
My neighbour’s kid has a habit of only listening to part of what teachers say and then honing in on that part. They recently went “-4 + 3 = -7” during a tutoring session, because “the teacher said + and - is always -“. >.<
Auntriarch 2 years ago
I'm coming back to this later today when the maths bunnies have explained the ones I didn't get
Brendan (banned for downvotes) 2 years ago (edited)
*laughing with my friends, pretending to understand the joke*
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Several of these hit on what I hate about American college (and higher secondary ed) physics: It is presented as purely applied math. I believe this is largely because engineering majors outnumber physics majors by some ungodly proportion, but Physics 101/102 is mechanics and electromagnetism and no other topic. The subject that is literally how the universe works, and to encourage wonder, we teach calculating vectors, which is possibly the only topic more utterly, mind-crushingly boring than the seven simple tools (the basis of 9th-grade physics).
Bec 2 years ago
Yes, you can do quite a bit without getting into the nitty gritty of the math.
Load More Replies... Liam LaRose 2 years ago
The f-1(x) memes didn't make sense because the inverse of x reflects it on the line y=x so it would just make the picture sideways and not inverted. Still liked these though
ThreeAngryLlamas 2 years ago
I definitely failed math at school, and had no trouble with these. BP titles are often condescending AF.
Hey! 2 years ago
Bought a similar clock for my oldest son when he graduated HS with 100% in Chem, Physics, and Math. There are different kinds out there. Can't remember which one I bought. Math-Clock...e28c4b.jpg
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
My neighbour’s kid has a habit of only listening to part of what teachers say and then honing in on that part. They recently went “-4 + 3 = -7” during a tutoring session, because “the teacher said + and - is always -“. >.<
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