I Think He Meant Pi Squared

The origin story we never knew we needed! Contrary to actual history (where trigonometry dates back to ancient Babylonian and Egyptian mathematicians), this meme presents the hilarious "alternative facts" version. The visual pun of the Doritos-headed businessman alongside a sphere of trigonometric equations is pure genius! It's playing on the fake etymology of "trigonometry" by inventing "Trey Gonometree" as its founder, while the "touch grass" phrase mocks how math enthusiasts can get so deep into abstract concepts they disconnect from reality. Next time your calculus professor starts lecturing, just ask if they've touched grass lately!

The mathematical flex nobody asked for! The top equation shows Euler's constant (e) as an infinite sum equaling approximately 2.71828, while the bottom shows a slightly different formulation with an integral that gives us 2.26653. It's like Euler dropped a remix of his own constant just to flex on future mathematicians. Imagine changing one symbol and getting a whole new irrational number—that's mathematical power move energy right there. Next up: π2: Electric Boogaloo.

The student's answer is a beautiful demonstration of linear thinking in a non-linear world! They've assumed that if 10 minutes = 2 pieces, then 15 minutes = 3 pieces. But they missed the crucial detail—cutting a board into 2 pieces requires ONE cut, while cutting it into 3 pieces requires TWO cuts! This is basically the mathematical equivalent of thinking you can cook two chickens in the same time as one chicken. The correct answer is 20 minutes (2 cuts × 10 minutes per cut). Math teachers everywhere are silently screaming into their coffee mugs right now.

The function f(x) = 1/x is having an existential crisis. "When will I reach zero?" it asks, desperately seeking mathematical fulfillment. But the cold, hard truth of limits delivers the crushing blow: "That's the neat part. You don't." No matter how far you extend this hyperbola toward infinity, it approaches but never touches zero. It's like that friend who says they're "almost there" but is actually still in their pajamas. The function is basically trapped in mathematical purgatory—forever approaching, never arriving. Just like my students approaching understanding on exam day.

The forgotten middle child of the metric system strikes again! This meme brilliantly captures how the decimeter (dm) gets completely ignored while millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers get all the glory. Poor little dm is relegated to the sad cat in the corner, desperately seeking attention like that one unit you vaguely remember from 5th grade science class but never actually used in real life. The metric system is supposed to be perfectly logical with its powers of 10, but somehow we collectively decided that measuring things as 0.1 meters or 10 cm was better than saying 1 dm. It's the mathematical equivalent of being left on read.

The classic "if p, then q" logical implication strikes again. The professor asks if two people sitting together implies they're in love—a classic correlation vs. causation fallacy. The student's "I don't know" response is brilliantly illustrated by showing both possibilities: people sitting together who might be in love, and people sitting together who definitely aren't. Without establishing the truth value of the premise, the conclusion remains undetermined. This is precisely why logicians make terrible matchmakers but excellent party guests—they'll never jump to conclusions about who's dating whom.