Math Meme Team

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Math (🧮) educators and researchers using social media and memes to explore stereotypes, curiosities, & uncertainties within 🧮 through critical 💬🗨 https://mathmemeteam.com/

Man with glasses, a bowtie, and v-neck sweater vest Caption "Math ... It comes easy to me"
Three images of "students" at different levels of mathematics. Elementary School - Captioned "I don't like math! too many numbers!" High School - Captioned "oh yeah? Try numbers AND letters." College - Captioned "You guys get numbers?"
Image - Three spidermen pointing at each other Text - the three spidermen, from left to right, are labeled 2 plus 2, 2 times 2, and 2-squared
Same image from earlier in the thread, an announcement of the conversation Four memes presented, a lemur falling asleep during math class, mr incredible in color and black and white, highlighting learning math for fun or in school, falling asleep in class and time moves backward, and four students in different stages of falling asleep, during math class
Same image from earlier in the thread, an announcement of the conversation Four memes presented, a lemur falling asleep during math class, mr incredible in color and black and white, highlighting learning math for fun or in school, falling asleep in class and time moves backward, and four students in different stages of falling asleep, during math class
Same image from earlier in the thread, an announcement of the conversation Four memes presented, a lemur falling asleep during math class, mr incredible in color and black and white, highlighting learning math for fun or in school, falling asleep in class and time moves backward, and four students in different stages of falling asleep, during math class
Same image from earlier in the thread, an announcement of the conversation Four memes presented, a lemur falling asleep during math class, mr incredible in color and black and white, highlighting learning math for fun or in school, falling asleep in class and time moves backward, and four students in different stages of falling asleep, during math class
Same image from earlier in the thread, an announcement of the conversation Four memes presented, a lemur falling asleep during math class, mr incredible in color and black and white, highlighting learning math for fun or in school, falling asleep in class and time moves backward, and four students in different stages of falling asleep, during math class
An announcement of a monthly live conversation that was held 24 April 2024 four images depicting participants in mathematics class were present, all seemed to be negative in nature, outlining math class as boring, sleepy, slow moving, sinister
What do you Meme? An Investigation of Social Media and Mathematical Identity
In Math class I am like: How do you do that again?
When the whole class is fighting over whether the answer is 17 or 18 but you got 157 (with a frozen face)
There are four stages in math class: preparing to sleep, feeling sleepiness, almost falling asleep, and being asleep (with a laugh-cry emoji)
Image - cartoon Ariel (the little mermaid) with glasses and a frustrated/confused look Text - when you look away in math class for seconds "wwwwaaaaaatttttt happened?"
almost fall sleep during Math class
Images: Black and white images of Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan with a color their "Hidden Figures" representations Text: "Meet the remarkable African American Women of Nasa (sic) who made John Glenn's Inaugural orbit around the earth (sic) possible"
Family Circus cartoon. Image - Boy digging through his 'Trick or Treat' bag Text - "Math is a lot more fun when you're counting Halloween treats!"
A Peanuts cartoon showing Peppermint Patty snoring in mathematic
Image - A 4 panel Calvin and Hobbes cartoon where Calvin is trying to do math homework and Hobbes introduces the idea of "imaginary numbers" Text - Panel 1: Calvin "Here's another math problem I can't figure out. What's 9 + 4?" Panel 2: Hobbes "ooh. That's a tricky one. You have to use calculus and imaginary numbers for this." Panel 3: Calvin "IMAGINARY NUMBERS?!" Hobbes "You know, Eleventeen, Thirty-twelve, and all those. It's a little confusing at first." Panel 4: Calvin "How did YOU learn all this? You've never even gone to school!" Hobbes "Instinct. Tigers are born with it."
Image - The Far Side comic featuring a man standing before St. Peter and the gate into Heaven Text - Caption "math phobic's nightmare" ... St. Peter's words "Okay listen up. Nobody gets in here without answering the following question: A train leaves Philadelphia at 1:00pm. it's traveling at 65 miles per hour. Another train leaves Denver at 4:00 ... Say, you need some paper?"
Image - Family Circus Cartoon by Jeff Keane - School pickup with young child talking to mom while pointing to older child Text - Mommy, you should see HIS math! He has to know numbers AND letters to do it!"
Image - Gary Larson's The Far Side cartoon with a woman straightening up the famous Einstein's desk as he works on the chalkboard solidifying E=mc - but he just can't find the right exponent Text - Now that desk looks better. Everything's squared away, yessir, squaaaaaared away.
A screen-capture of a project posed to students where they create math memes
Scene from Mean Girls where three characters are in the car speaking to a fourth girl New Caption - "Get your LCD's, we're adding and subtracting fractions!!!"