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Math sometimes gets a bad rap. Traditionally, it’s not the most well-liked subject in school. Students often complain that it’s difficult to understand. In fact, in a 2023 survey, math ranked only above foreign languages as a subject in terms of people’s favorite. 59% of respondents said they liked or loved math when they were in high school.

Perhaps some of these math lovers are now fans of the Meme For Mathematicians Facebook page. It’s the perfect place to go to have a chuckle or two if you’re a professional mathematician or just an average fan of crunching numbers.

Bored Panda reached out to Ben Orlin, the creative mind behind Math with Bad Drawings. We asked Ben why math should be important to everyone and what the best ways to learn and teach it are. Read our conversation with him below!

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Tiffany Sauter
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2 years ago

If only all arguments could have a mathematical solution we can agree on.

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    Leebo13
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    2 years ago

    I'm also quite partial to there being 3 types of people, those who know how to count and those who don't.

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    JoinMeZoe
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    2 years ago

    I love how the middle dragon looks at the dumb one.

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    Debs
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    2 years ago

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    Mike F
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    2 years ago

    That's why they went extinct.

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    Linda van A.
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    2 years ago

    Oké...now do it with triangles.

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    Weaponized Beef
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    2 years ago

    Bruh. That makes it so much easier.

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    Nic Behpens
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    2 years ago

    I am one to believe that Tuesday is the worst weekday. Mondays suck because the weekend but sometimes it's 3 day weekend. Wednesday day is half way through. Thursday is tomorrow's Friday. Friday is tomorrow is the weekend but sometimes it's a 3 day weekend. But Tuesday can only say at least I'm not this guy who is apart of the 3 day weekend.

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    michael Chock
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    2 years ago

    Speed is relative. Unfortunately both your speedometer and a radar work on the same plane of relativity.

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    JoinMeZoe
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    2 years ago

    Poor kitty... F u for all the pain you caused me 2ab.

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    Justin Tyme
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    2 years ago

    So, what about it? Zero is not any less significant or useful than any other number.

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    LittleTeapot
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    2 years ago (edited)

    My weird brain: why’s they show “sheep X sheep” and not two sheep f*ing? Multiply! I guess that’d make “sheep / sheep” pretty weird though…

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    Stephanie Barr
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    2 years ago

    Physics is just word problems, applied math. That's why I love it.

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    Darth_Borah
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    2 years ago

    Wait... I do that after shaking hands but I'm an engineer.

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    Nadine Debard
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    2 years ago

    As an engineer I would directly answer x=1 or x= -1

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    Jrog
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    2 years ago

    Except 1) it never happened and 2) hot catalytic converters in gas-powered engine are a common source of ignition in bush fires. https://tceq.texas.gov/airquality/mobilesource/vetech/catfire.html

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    Barry
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    2 years ago

    I'm a pop-scientist

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    Regina Holt
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    2 years ago

    I would not not accept that answer.

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    BeesEelsAndPups
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    2 years ago

    Awww, Factorial(0), you're #1

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    Trophy Husband
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    2 years ago

    I'm a former engineer and astronomer and I remember it as 3.14159. almost no one needs more than that.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    2 years ago

    dx generally does NOT equal d times x. It's the derivative of x.

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    Mark Sawyer
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    2 years ago

    The Flat Earth Society has followers all around the world...

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    Scott Rackley
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    2 years ago

    Nah. Philosophy is people who don't understand math trying to put words to it.

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    Linda van A.
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    2 years ago

    No math here, this breaks my heart 😢

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    StarCrossedFriday
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    2 years ago

    Okay, half of these are lost on me - I studied languages for a reason 😅

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    2 years ago

    Took me a second. Wave particle duality. The double slit experiment.

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    Paulo Antonio Moreira
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    2 years ago

    He got just the square root of treasure.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    2 years ago

    That's a lot of variables.

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    Anonymouse
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    2 years ago

    Okay, who else thought "hole in one" at first and sat there trying to figure out what golf had to do with this? (Btw if ppl want to know, the joke is that there's a hole at 1, meaning it's literally "no one"; for "absolutely no one" there's nothing below 0, which is what absolute value of numbers causes)

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    BeesEelsAndPups
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    2 years ago

    My uncle was a civil engineer and mother was a doctor. He liked to say, "when you make a mistake somebody dies, when I make a mistake a LOT of people die"

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    Talis
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    2 years ago

    Should be * instead of &

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    Skara Brae
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    2 years ago

    On the second one, divide top and bottom by the square root of two to get the first one.

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    Anonymouse
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    2 years ago

    AHH NOOOOO!!! MY EYYYYESSS

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    Miki
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    2 years ago

    Off by ~20s but OK :p

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    BeesEelsAndPups
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    2 years ago

    No, LaTeX is dumb. I don't understand why people insist on using it.

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    BeesEelsAndPups
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    2 years ago

    1(meh)

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    2 years ago

    Stats wasn't that hard for me. It was way easier than integral calculus.

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    Ali H M Salehuddin
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    2 years ago

    So is 100,000,000,001. Divisible by 17.

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    Feathered Dinosaur
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    2 years ago

    So they're talking about me behind my back 🤨

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    StarCrossedFriday
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    2 years ago (edited)

    This is like that magic trick anyone can do - watch me shuffle these cards into an order that has (most likely) never been seen before! Tadaaaa!

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    Joseph Stillman
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    2 years ago

    yeah I did this, wasn't that hard

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    Rick Seiden
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    2 years ago

    Alan Turing. He and his team shortened WWII and saved countless lives. In return, the persecuted him for being gay, gave him a choice between jail and chemical castration, and when he chose the latter, it depressed him so much he unalived himself.

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    Communist Ferret
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    2 years ago

    Umm how can I do this

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    Science Nerd
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    2 years ago

    Excellent book!

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    Ali H M Salehuddin
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    You can extend this.. Sqrt(1234567899987654321) = 1111111111; Sqrt(123456789989987654321) = 11111111111; Sqrt(12345678998789987654321) = 111111111111 Sqrt(1234567899876789987654321) = 1111111111111 and so on.

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    Communist Ferret
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    2 years ago

    For those of us who don't math it means I'll be therefore you

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    Delano Mighty
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    2 years ago

    Shouldn't this be the other way around? First and second derivative?

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    StarCrossedFriday
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    2 years ago

    Either there’s a very clever link between this text and this image, or I’m even more lost than I already was.

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