To celebrate pi Day, I shared the following jokes with the students:
1. A mathematician and a baker are having an argument. The mathematician says, "Pi r squared, pi r squared". The baker replies, "No stupid! Pies are round, cakes are square!"
2. What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter? Pumpkin pi!
3. What do you get if you take the moon and divide its circumference by its diameter? Pi in the sky!
4. Too much pi increases my diameter!
5. If you have a cylinder with radius 'z' and height 'a', what is the volume of the cylinder?
Volume = pi times radius squared times height
Therefore V = pizza!
6. A physicist, a pastor and a mathematician are standing at the top of a skyscraper. Their task is to jump of the skyscraper and land in a small pool at the bottom. The physicist goes first. She calculates wind speed, friction and allows for the effect of gravity, then jumps and lands safely in the pool. The pastor goes next. He meditates, prays, then focuses and jumps, landing safely in the pool. The mathematician goes last. She creates a beautiful function, gets ready, and then jumps straight up. Oops - forgot the negative sign!
(PS - can anyone help me with the physics references, I kind of made them up!)
And, as a fitting and not unexpected result, some of the kids laughed ;-)
Hehehehe! I like the first one! I'm sure the students would have got some of them!
ReplyDeleteI will put some photos on facebook of our Pi-Day celebrations hare at school. The boy that won the pie eating comp ate his in 6.59 seconds. And the most digits of pi remembered was 111!!!!!!!!!! Which was more than double anyone else. It was awesome.
And I wrote pi on my fingernails :-P