Antarctica Journal of Mathematics

Feb 25, 2010  
Wow!
Take a look at the website for the "Antarctica Journal of Mathematics". Reminds me of the websites that flooded the net back in the 90's.

ant.jpg


Yup, those stars are supposed to be flashing!!

Link to journal.
Link to reddit discussion about it.
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This is a weird tutoring ad

Feb 18, 2010  
math-ad-english.jpg

And that sure is a long email address!!
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Book math fail

Feb 12, 2010  


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Price semi-fail

Feb 12, 2010  


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I call cheats!

Feb 11, 2010  






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Pricing fail GH

Feb 9, 2010  


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Incorrect! Poor guy lol

Feb 7, 2010  


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Almost pizza hut! Almost....

Feb 5, 2010  


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Test proof fail

Jan 31, 2010  


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Math Tudoring

Jan 25, 2010  
Thought I'd share an email I just received...

To:
me!!

Subject:
Math Tudoring

Message:
Hi,
 
Could you tell me if you are available for Math 100 tudoring? If available, do you tudor at the university or at student's home?
 
Thanks

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Silly Omegle Chat

Jan 17, 2010  
Omegle is a site where you can chat one-on-one with strangers. The service randomly pairs up users online into one-on-one chat windows, where they can chat anonymously using the handles "You" and "Stranger". Either party can disconnect at any time.

This particular chat is rather amusing:


omegle chat


Just don't check the math ;-)
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The Office - Math Fail

Jan 16, 2010  
One of my favorite parts of the tv show "The Office":

the office math fail


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Answer Fail

Jan 5, 2010  
answer fail

Sorry, that's not correct. Guess next time he/she shouldn't have put a space :D
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Fox news fail (again)

Dec 17, 2009  
Remember this pi chart (from Fox News):

fox news fail

Well, turns out Fox News is at it again:

fox news fail


I'm guessing that people can vote for multiple categories.
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One hour to live (testing fail)

Dec 16, 2009  
one hour to live

If I had one hour to live, I'd spend it in this class because it feels like an eternity.
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Elephant blocking my test

Dec 15, 2009  
Elephant blocking my test


Nice try student!! But...

elephant correction
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Silly math

Dec 14, 2009  
Two silly clips where the math doesn't add up.

The first one claims 13 x 7 = 28.

funny math

The second one claims 14 x 5 = 25.

funny math


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Math 911

Dec 13, 2009  
math 911


Hahaha, this is pretty cute. This 4 year old boy calls 911 for help with math because earlier his mom told him to get help.

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Pokemath

Dec 11, 2009  
pokemath


Student: I couldn't figure out this problem, but here is an amateur drawing of a charizard. I hope that helps...

Math Teacher: Blastoise uses water cannon. It's Super Effective! Charizard fainted.
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Math clock

Dec 10, 2009  
math clock

Do the math! I dare you...
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i <3 u

Dec 9, 2009  
i <3 u

Funny chat...
Edit: As pointed out below by mrburkemath (thanks!) this comes from the comic Luke Surl http://www.lukesurl.com/archives/916 (which is released under a share alike license).
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Pinocchio paradox

Dec 9, 2009  
paradox

Hmmm...

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Jesus Venn Diagram

Dec 7, 2009  
Jesus Venn Diagram

Silly Venn diagram >_<
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Silly blackboard picture

Dec 5, 2009  
blackboard


I call fake!! Looks pretty sweet though!
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Math Sign Fail

Dec 4, 2009  
math sign
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Math counts - spelling doesn't

Dec 3, 2009  
math counts


MATHCOUNTS in North Carolina

This presentation will present a status report on MATHCUNTS in North Carloina...
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Are the reals countable?

Nov 29, 2009  
John Gabriel (a non-mathematician) claims in his blog that the real numbers are countable. The author tries to enumerate the real numbers in the interval [0, 1) by writing out all those whose decimal representation has one digit after the dot (0.1, 0.2, ..., 0.9), followed by those with two digits after the dot, then those with three digits, and so on.

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Penis physics

Nov 6, 2009  
Why is there a penis on your physics hw?



I can't quite read what it says... Penis-TATION? MTATION? Dictation?
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Fox news - pi chart

Nov 5, 2009  


Hmm... something doesn't add up :-]
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Silly prediction quiz

Nov 1, 2009  
Take this silly quiz and we will predict your all time favorite tv show!

First pick a number from 1 to 9.

Multiply by 3.

Add 3.

Multiply by 3 again.

Add the two digits together.
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Funny test answers

Oct 29, 2009  
More funny exam answers...


mmm Sushi!!
 sushi test exam question
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Silly exam answers

Oct 27, 2009  
More funny exam answers...

This one is silly, gotta love teachers!!
teacher fail at math letter
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First Annual Special Mathlympics to be hosted by Canada in 2012

Oct 26, 2009  
What is it?
Special Mathlympics is an annual event with the main goal of stimulating interest and igniting passion in mathematics!

Who can participate?
The competition is open to people of all ages who are special (in the sense that they are mathematically challenged).

When/where is it?
On March 14th, 2010, the very first Special Mathlympics will take place in Toronto, Ontario. The Special Mathlympics occur every year! The host city for 2011 will be Paris, France.

Schedule of events:
Day 1: Addition
Day 2: Subtraction
Day 3: Multiplication
Day 4: Puzzles

On day 4, teams will answer tough mathematical puzzles like the famous Moomahata bird problem:

  • Suppose Moomahata has 3 birds and Meemahata has 2 birds. One the birds that Meemahata has is named Moomahata and the other is named Meemahata. The birds that Moomahata have are named: Meemahata, Moomahata, Meomahata. Suppose that Moomahata has $7 per bird and the bird named Moomahata has $2 per Meemahata. If Meemahata has $3 per bird and an additional $1 per Meemahata, then how much money does the bird Meemahata that is owned by Moomahata have?

Register your team TODAY for the chance to win the world title!
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Funny students and tests

Oct 25, 2009  
More funny exam answers...

Nice... and unusual (xkcd reference btw):
 hoverboard velociraptor xkcd test exam reference
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More funny exam answers

Oct 22, 2009  
More funny exam answers...

Lions are cute...
student and teacher draw lion on test exam
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Funny Exam Answers

Oct 21, 2009  
More funny exam answers...

The first one is where a student answers "C" for every answer, but it was a true/false test so only answers "A" and "B" applied, LOL... see the remark from the prof below.
test exam fail always pick c
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FailAds

Oct 20, 2009  
FailAds.com is a site that has some funny pictures of advertisements. This particular one is someone looking for a math tudor:

math-tudar-tutor.jpgYou can visit their site for a collection of other epic fail ads, funny pictures of Engrish, pwned, Tshirts, signs, magazine ads, instructions, packaging and lots more.
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Balloon boy fail (do the math)

Oct 19, 2009  
Ya so I keep hearing about this balloon boy... although I haven't actually read any news articles on it, so based on headlines I keep seeing this is what I suspect happened:
- Richard Heene makes experimental helium balloon
- Heene & wife freakout since their "son" may be in the basket
- crapload of publicity, balloon comes down, son not in there
- son was actually in the Heene house attic all along
- 4chan delivers pizza to balloon boy
- news now reporting the stunt was a hoax
- charges filed against Heene
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how much does wolfram alpha cost?

Oct 18, 2009  
So over on TechCrunch.com they were being big babies about the cost of the WolframAlpha iphone app. Although the website is free to use, asking Wolfram Alpha how much it costs gives:
 wolfram alpha cost I don't have an iphone, so the cost of the app doesn't matter to me ^_^
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Google suggest fail

Oct 17, 2009  
This is just a small collection of some funny google suggestions.

The first one is "how to make"... ummm...


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Yo momma so (nerdy ones)

Oct 16, 2009  
Boing Boing had a post titled "The Nerdy Dozens", where on Xeni Jardin's twitter account a bunch of very nerdy "yo momma" jokes appeared. A lot of these were hilarious, so to preserve the ingenuity I collected the most nerdiest ones. Kudos to those who came up with these! Starting with my favorites:

  • Yo mamma so fat, China uses her to block the internet.
  • Yo mama so fat pkzip can't compress her.
  • Yo momma so fat, it takes 5 warlocks to summon her.
  • Yo momma so fat you gotta address her in 128 bit.
  • Yo momma so fat they mapped her for Google street view.
  • Yo momma so old she goes on carbon dates.
  • Yo momma so stupid, she's currently on a quest for the Head of Vecna.
  • Your momma is so mean she stole the walrus' bukkit and ate kitteh's cheezburger.
  • Yo momma so mean she has no standard deviation.
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i beat stumbleupon in math

Oct 11, 2009  
So today I beat stumbleupon in math!! Check out the proof here:

su.pngMathFail = 1; StumbleUpon = 0.
Me thinks I deserve a medal ^_^
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The math behind low riding pants (how cool is it?)

Oct 10, 2009  
In this post we learn all about the math behind low riding pants and how cool it really is.

I decided to do a study just to see what the relationship was. I interviewed 13,532 people and showed them each 6 pictures of people wearing low riding pants. I then asked them to select a "COOLNESS FACTOR" for each picture.
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Look around you maths

Oct 8, 2009  
This British comedy show is hilarious. It's called "Look Around You" and the second epsidoe is about "Maths". Check it out on youtube (at least for now):

look.jpg
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Calculator for grades K-3

Oct 4, 2009  
This calculator is perfect for all those kindergartners who need to do some math... quoted from the website:

"The TI-10 is perfect for the primary grades. It combines popular features of the TI-15 Explorer™, which makes it a unique tool for grades K-3. The TI-10's comfortable, colorful design helps students find patterns in daily activities and helps educators reinforce math concepts in all elementary subjects."
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Cat picture

Oct 3, 2009  
This is a cute picture :D

cat meow mu comic picture
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Math fails in history

Oct 3, 2009  
Dick Lipton wrote a great post over at Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP. In his Sept 27th post he talked about surprises in mathematics. In one of his sections he gives three examples of where mathematicians "accepted" a false proof. Sometimes this happens and it might be dozens of years until someone realizes a mistake has been made.

One interesting example of this is the Four Colour Theorem (that's right ya bunch of monkeys, I spelled colour with a U!!!)...
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How many guys are there for me?

Sep 29, 2009  
Hey guys,

Based on my previous post of "How many girls are there for me," I thought it would be interesting to see how many guys there are for me. So hypothetically let's pretend I am gay and a top (if you don't know what that means you should get some more gay friends lol). Just a recap that I found out in the last post that:
11, 414 girls
are suitable matches for me.

Now, some of my stats I used from counting the number of girls for me still hold. The male population on the planet is about:
Male population on earth in 2009:
3,500,000,000
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How many girls are there for me?

Sep 29, 2009  
Hey guys,

I don't have a girlfriend but I don't think there is anything wrong with me, hahaha... but being the mathematician that I am, let's look to see how many girls exactly would be a match for me :D

I went onto Wolfram|Alpha and looked up the female population on the planet and got:
Female population on earth in 2009:
3,326,000,000

But I am looking for a girl who is in North America. Restricting this number to Canada and the United States gives:
171, 230, 000 girls
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Why does Canada have skill-testing questions for contests / lotteries?

Sep 28, 2009  
All winners who are in Canada have to answer math problems before getting any prize. Things like...
90 x 2, then divide by six, then x 12

This question was for claiming an Xbox 360 in a contest, so the answer of course is 360!

But WHY?? Americans don't have to do it, a monkey on a stick can win prize in the U.S and not even know how to do 1+2. But in Canada, to even win the McDonald's hockey trading cards you need to do these silly computations.
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Girls are dumb at math

Sep 26, 2009  
Oh jeez, with a title like that I'm sure to get my ass kicked :-\

"In tests in Canada, women who were told that men and women do math equally well did much better than those who were told there is a genetic difference in math ability.

And women who heard there were differences caused by environment -- such as math teachers giving more attention to boys -- outperformed those who were simply reminded they were females.

The women who did better in the tests got nearly twice as many right answers as those in the other groups, explained Steven J. Heine, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver."
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I'm suing you for "1,784 billion, trillion dollars"!

Sep 25, 2009  
This guy named Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America's customer service -- like really, really, really, really unhappy :-|

Anyways, in August he decided to sue the largest U.S. bank and its board... demanding that
"1,784 billion, trillion dollars"
be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000. 
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World of Warcraft - Negative gold problem

Sep 12, 2009  
negative-gold.jpgThere is a flaw in World of Warcrafts statistics for "Total gold acquired". A couple years ago, players discovered that the most a character can hold is 2^31 (or 2147483648) copper pieces of currency. This is what is known as the "gold cap" in World of Warcraft. A single character cannot hold more gold than this in his backpack, otherwise an error is reported.
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Patricia Heaton has troubles with easy math

Sep 11, 2009  
Patricia Heaton (from the tv show "Everybody Loves Raymond"), has a hard time on one incredibly easy question for $50,000 for charity on the Millionaire 10th Anniversary Celebration. The question is:

If a euro is worth $1.50, five euros is worth what?
a) thirty quarters
b) fifty dimes
c) seventy nickels
d) ninety pennies

After five minutes of struggling, she FINALLY managed to get it right.

millionaire.jpgYou can find the video on youtube with a simple search of her name.
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Facebook sucks at math

Sep 3, 2009  
I was goofing off on Facebook when I decided to look into it's advertising system. I got to a page that asked for a bunch of information. I decided to target people with the following particulars:
  • 18+ years old
  • College Grad
  • Majored in Mathematics (of course :D)
It also asked for countries to target. I put in Canada and the United States and at the bottom of the screen it said:
164,400 people
  • who live in one of the countries: Canada or United States
facebook-fail-1.png
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What is 1 + 1?

Sep 1, 2009  
1-plus-1.jpg
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Funny Testing Fail Pictures

Aug 29, 2009  
Expand: (a+b)^n
expand (a+b)^n

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Sex Math Joke: A Complete Fail

Aug 27, 2009  
There is a "sex math" trick that floated around the internet back in the day... it can be found at these places:

http://www.allfunnypictures.com/pages/sexmath.html
http://somethinbeautiful.blogspot.com/2008/11/amazing-sex-mathematics.html
http://www.funnyjunk.com/pages/sex_mathematics.htm

The only problem is this trick ONLY works if the year is 2003. Basically, the trick goes like this:
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Silly Math Fail Pics

Aug 26, 2009  
Mental attractiveness vs physical attractiveness
Mental attractiveness vs physical attractiveness

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Funny Pricing Fail Pictures

Aug 15, 2009  
Dual Burner Gas Grill Pricing Fail
dual burner gas grill pricing fail

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Hilarious Pricing Fail Pictures

Aug 14, 2009  
$6.66 Be like jesus pricing fail
666 Be like jesus pricing fail

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Hysterical Pricing Fail Pictures

Aug 13, 2009  
Silly savings on ice cream fail
Silly savings on ice cream fail
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Hilarious Testing Fail Pictures

Aug 11, 2009  
Explain the shape of the graph.
explain the shape of the graph fail
Its curvy, with a higher bit at the end and a rather aesthetically pleasing slope downwards towards a pretty fast strait bit. The actual graph itself consists of 2 strait lines meeting at the lower left hand corner of the graph and moving away at a 90 degree angle. Each line has an arrow head on the end.

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Calculator Fail

Aug 10, 2009  
calculator

I'm always eager about finding math mistakes in the news. The Herald reported that a Traffic Warden was incorrectly ticketing cars in a parking lot because of how he was using his calculator. He failed to realize that calculators work in decimals rather than minutes and hours. One car owner saw this and tried to explain the error but the Traffic Warden was convinced his calculator method was correct and continued to ticket cars. Eventually, after an appeal the incorrect tickets were repealed and a letter of apology was sent.
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Why is life expectancy higher in Canada?

Aug 4, 2009  
Taking a look at the table in wikipedia the life expectancy for Canada is indeed a bit higher than that of the USA. Peter Gillies asked this question and Bill O'Reilly answers it perfectly:
"Well, that's to be expected, Peter, because we have ten times as many people as you do. That translates to ten times as many accidents, crimes, down the line..."

Video:
Bill OReilly stupid answer
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Funny Math Fail Pics

Jul 30, 2009  
100% Discount Store
discount store sign fail

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