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   Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

   Yeah, like I’m going to get out a ruler to measure pie slices…

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   Nipponkid said, about 1 year ago

   Thats why theres guesstimating.

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   rayannina said, about 1 year ago

   Somewhere, Danica McKellar is smiling.

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   Ray C said, about 1 year ago

   This is fabulous. My wife and I have been mentoring 5th graders for an hour a week, and this is their constant complaint: why do I have to study math?
   The second problem is really easier than the first. Cut the pie into six slices and give Peter 2. This makes 60 degree angles, which are easier to deal with. (You can skip one of the cuts to give Peter a single large piece rather than 2.)
   BTW, you would use a protractor to measure angles, not a ruler.
   Sorry to sound like a math geek, but I are one.

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   Calvinhobbes24 said, about 1 year ago

   I gotta write that trick down.

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   Pwnage said, about 1 year ago

   lol

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   Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

   RayC says: BTW, you would use a protractor to measure angles, not a ruler.
   Sorry to sound like a math geek, but I are one.
   OK, then. Yeah, like i’m going to get my protractor out to measure pie slices.

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   Ray C said, about 1 year ago

   margueritem says:
   ” Yeah, like i’m going to get my protractor out to measure pie slices.”

   I would! But first I’d have to wash off the pizza sauce.

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   hcrobin85 said, about 1 year ago

   many basic types of math are useful..what I don’t get is upper level math like trig or calculus..now there’s something you don’t need in real life!!!

10. 

    metawarr566 said, about 1 year ago

    “I are one?”

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    m_ortal said, about 1 year ago

    Picture a clock. Every 5 minutes is 30 degrees, so 15 minutes is 90 degrees or a right angle. If you want 72 degrees, remember that each minute is 6 degrees, so 12 minutes on a clock face covers 72 degrees. BTW, we use trig and calculus as life-savers - if you can’t pass them, you don’t get into medical school.

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    bluetopazcrystal said, about 1 year ago

    I guess RayC is a math geek not a literacy follower.LOL.

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    Sternvogel said, about 1 year ago

    There are a lot of T-shirts printed with slogans like “I are getting an educayshun at State U” or “I never thought I’d be a college graduate, but now I are an English teacher!”

    I’m guessing Ray C was thinking in that vein, although it would have been even funnier had he said “but I are two”, thus being both gramatically and mathematically incorrect!

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    IDIOTIDIOTIDIOT said, about 1 year ago

    funny. common scenario at my house.

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    Ray C said, about 1 year ago

    Sternvogel says:
    “There are a lot of T-shirts printed with slogans like “I are getting an educayshun at State U” or “I never thought I’d be a college graduate, but now I are an English teacher!” ”
    I’m guessing Ray C was thinking in that vein, although it would have been even funnier had he said “but I are two”, thus being both gramatically and mathematically incorrect!
    Thanks for standing up for me, Sternvogel. I was thinking of the tee shirt, “Last year I cudn’t even spell injuneer, and today I are one.” Can’t win ‘em all, I guess.

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    Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

    Ray C says:

    Sternvogel says:
    “There are a lot of T-shirts printed with slogans like “I are getting an educayshun at State U” or “I never thought I’d be a college graduate, but now I are an English teacher!” ”
    I’m guessing Ray C was thinking in that vein, although it would have been even funnier had he said “but I are two”, thus being both gramatically and mathematically incorrect!
    Thanks for standing up for me, Sternvogel. I was thinking of the tee shirt, “Last year I cudn’t even spell injuneer, and today I are one.” Can’t win ‘em all, I guess.

    I understood what you meant. Like minds, I guess.

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    zerotsm said, about 1 year ago

    Well, I use trig all the time, calculus less so, but that’s for work, not “real life”.

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    circuit7 said, about 1 year ago

    I call my kids whenever I find myself needing it at home. They don’t always know the answer but when I show them, they know. From my 19yo to my 6yo, the question “Why study math” has never been asked in my house.

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    mrhippey said, about 1 year ago

    Math IS everywhere. AND The point of learning math is not the same as learning how to write. Math teaches abstract thinking - a skill that is utilized in many different fields.

    –Journalist (also Wife of a High School Math Teacher)

20. 

    LateToTheGame said, about 1 year ago

    Actually Marguerite, you’d want a protractor, or maybe even a compass if you wanted to challenge yourself. Not much could be done with a ruler. :)

21. 

    Llywus said, about 1 year ago

    Not much could be done with a ruler. :)
    As a straightedge - gotta get those slices cut cleanly! lol

22. 

    tobybartels said, about 1 year ago

    Using only an unmarked compass and straightedge, can you make 72-degree angles?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass%20and%20straightedge%20construction

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    danalfranks said, about 1 year ago

    This is no joke… I just watched my math major sister cut my dad’s birthday pie into equal pieces for 9 dinner guests. Stared at it a moment, went to work, and it came out perfectly. Geesh!

24. 

    Samalamadingdong said, about 1 year ago

    i know that feeling so well -o- “sigh”

25. 

    jabo said, about 1 year ago

    Substitute by the WHO! Jabo

26. 

    mathhead said, about 1 year ago

    Why do they make us study math is school?

27. 

    seapilot said, about 1 year ago

    notice how the leaf in the picture in the background flips around in the different pannels?

28. 

    Requin said, about 1 year ago

    I wouldn’t be able to live without math <3

29. 

    runar said, about 1 year ago

    Jason would have solved the problem using something other than base ten.

30. 

    KingRat said, about 1 year ago

    and if peter solved it there would be no pie.

31. 

    MusicLoveTheatre17 said, about 1 year ago

    este es uno de mis cómics favoritos en el mundo entero! Estoy totalmente de amor este comic porque me hace reír!