FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for May 28, 2013

My daughter figured out how many days were in 1/4 of a year, and did it in her head. She’s in 2nd grade. She’s always had a gift for numbers, but science is her real love.

“Somehow it’s OK for people to chuckle at not being good at math. Yet if I said I never learned to read, they’d say I was an illiterate dolt. Science and math [are] fundamental to what it is to be alive, because they’re all around us.”—Neil deGrasse Tyson

It’s clobberin’ time!

My understanding of math stopped several levels before geometry.

All I know about math is that 2 + 2 = 22. All I NEED to know!

Wrong. 2+2=5.

seriously? math comes easily to a lot of people i know, including me