Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for August 13, 2021

Looks like a formula for breaking free from the comics.

There’s a spell for that.

Jimmy Buffet has a song about that.

1+1=3

HEY TEACHER! LEAVE THE SPOOKS ALONE!

I has to agrees with Wiz that Maths sucks. For example, why on earth is multiplications of two negative numbers is always a positive numbers.

I loved maths books. I used to draws so many comics on them maths books.

Something doesn’t add up here… :D

Math doesn’t suck. Learning math can sometimes suck.

I’m reading a book about Geoffrey Chaucer. In the Middle Ages, learning was divided into two parts: the trivium, which consisted of grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Higher education—the quadrivium— was taught in the universities and included arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. According to all sources, “In spite of not entering upon the quadrivium, Chaucer certainly learned some arithmetic. He probably did not attempt to penetrate into the mysteries of division, which was reserved only for advanced students, but he must have learned to do addition and subtraction since in his later career as a civil servant he had a great deal to do with keeping of accounts.” The mysteries of division . . . who knew???

actually in the middle ages, monks copying books did that all the time. all sorts of fun stuff shows up written in the margins of old texts.

Day dreaming is just our minds taking a break. Not necessarily a sign of a broken mind.

LOL!

Considering what the ghoul does, both as a job and pastime, math would not seem to be necessary.

Old Math, New Math, Alternative Math, politically correct mathematics??? In California Leftists are just trying to Cancel Math Class. No wonder the U.S. in most recent PISA results, placed an unimpressive 38th out of 71 countries in math and 24th in science.

Lest favorite subject REYREY

Some say geometry is pointless. Those people are wrong.

As an occasional math tutor to family, friends, and friends of the family for almost 60 years I have to say that dissolving math anxiety is the ultimate goal of teaching math. Seeing people look forward to getting another A (or even a B) on tests they regularly failed is one of the high points of my life. Darkness gives way to light!

Don’t wave your sines at me.

This reminds me of a comic by Bill Abbott, creator of Speckticles.

Then there’s the square root of minus 1, i think.

Can anyone interpret that drivel on his blackboard?

Math is the reason I didn’t try to become an astronomer.