Word Problem Jokes

**If you're going down a river at 2 MPH and your canoe loses a wheel, how much pancake mix would you need to re-shingle your roof?**

A teacher is working on word problems with her students and asks, "if there are 3 birds on a fence and you shoot one, how many are left?" A boy raises his hand and says, "zero. Because if you shoot one the other two fly away" The teacher responds, "no, there's two left but that's creative and I like... read more

If you have five crystals, and billy takes four crystals, and sally gives you two crystals, how many crystals do you have?

It was then that I realized the kids were all doing crystal math.

Because they have word problems

Because it has word problems

A teacher is in front of the class teaching word problems. She asks little Susie,

Teacher: “If you had 5 pets and someone wanted 3 of them, how many would you have?”

Susie: “5, I’m not going to give them away.”

Teacher: “Alright, if you had 5 pets and someone forcibly took 3 of ... read more

First word problems