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MIT Admissions | Blog Entry: "Everybody LOVES a math joke"

prizrak6 rated 19 months ago
Another golden oldie. But actually the most funny thing to me was a comment with a math joke: You've got three cups of coffee and 14 sugar cubes. Without breaking any individual cubes in pieces, how do you split these cubes up so that you have an odd amount in each cup? Given up? 1, 1, and ...

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Hudzon rated 17 months ago
"A biologist, a physicist, and a mathematician were sitting in a street café watching the crowd. Across the street they saw a man and a woman entering a building. Ten minutes later they reappeared together with a third person. "They have multiplied," said the biologist. "Oh no, an error in measurement," the physicist sighed. "If exactly one person enters the building now, it will be empty again," the mathematician concluded."
waffley rated 22 months ago
How can anyone not love a math joke?
prizrak6 rated 19 months ago
Another golden oldie. But actually the most funny thing to me was a comment with a math joke: You've got three cups of coffee and 14 sugar cubes. Without breaking any individual cubes in pieces, how do you split these cubes up so that you have an odd amount in each cup? Given up? 1, 1, and 12 (But, 12 isn't an odd number!) Don't ya think it's kinda odd to put 12 sugar cubes in one cup of coffee?
superstring rated 22 months ago
From the page: ""I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I Could Lie Tangent To Your Curves!" " Now while I'm seriously concerned about my future being shaped by 42,000 people attached to this group, I'd still make it 42,001!
Rhystic rated 22 months ago
The limit joke split me.
Head1 rated 22 months ago
This makes me laugh.
ZAI rated 22 months ago
Hehe, a collection of good math jokes. I've seen all the pictures before, but the first joke was good :-D
eudoxie rated 22 months ago
From the page: "A biologist, a physicist, and a mathematician were sitting in a street café watching the crowd. Across the street they saw a man and a woman entering a building. Ten minutes later they reappeared together with a third person. 'They have multiplied,' said the biologist. 'Oh no, an error in measurement,' the physicist sighed. 'If exactly one person enters the building now, it will be empty again,' the mathematician concluded."
astronautbread rated 22 months ago
Math jokes rock my socks off.
brainstew rated 22 months ago
a site on math jokes