This Sums It Up - Math Puns

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1. It was a very sad day for the mathematician. I asked him what was wrong. He pointed to a dead bird in a cage and said what? "Parabola." "Calculus." "Statistic." "Polygon."

2. I had just left the house to go for a walk when it started raining. Rather than get completely drenched, I decided to cancel my walk and do what? Factorise Integrate Coincide Bisect

3. I saw a small purple piece of fruit commuting the other day. What might it be? A Boolean blackberry A Mandelbrot plum An Abelian grape A Gaussian fig

4. I saw a kettle suspended above a fire boiling some water. What might it have been described as? Cathetus Hypotenuse Space diagonal Periphrasis

5. So two straight lines are having a chat. One says to the other, "Hey, that 30° angle over there looks quite nice." The other replies, "Yeah, she's..." what? Obtuse angle Reflex angle Right angle Acute angle

6. A good mathematician friend of mine (I have a lot of them, by the way) retired the other week, to a nice house out in the country. I went and visited him, and saw a sign out the front displaying the name of the house. What was it? Logarithm Ellipse Aftermath Circumference

7. It was a hot day, so I drove down to the beach. There was a sunburned man there. What would that make him? A bronzeboy A burnman A tangent A brownguy

8. A friend's daughter brought home a plant that she had been growing during math classes. It looked fine, but then she took it out of the pot, and the bottom part of it was quite strange. What made the plant odd? Quadratic residue Complex logarithms Square roots Nested radicals

9. I heard that there was a student who had problems in math class, so the teacher gave him a pair of special glasses to improve what? Multiplication Subtraction Addition Division

10. I was asked if I thought Newton could transform into an umbrella. I replied with what? Cotangent Cosecant Sine Cosine