School jokes

Published July 6, 2012

Why did the carpenter study math?

So that he could build multiplication tables.

What types of math do sharpshooters study? Trigger-nometry.

What did George Washington’s father say when he saw his report card? “George, you’re going down in history.”

Why did the baker go to the math class? To learn the value of pi.

What do fashionable biology students wear? Designer genes.

How was your geology lecture? I was rocked to sleep.

What happened to the student who swallowed the dictionary? The nurse could not get a word out of him.

How did the mummy react to the dull class lecture? It was bored stiff.

Why did the computer screen go to school? So that it could become a class monitor.

Why didn’t the baby computer come to school today? Because it had a bad virus.

Silly: “I know someone who is 30 years old and who’s still in fifth grade. Sally: “No way!” Silly: “Yeah, she’s my teacher.”

Why do geometric figures never meet? They travel in different circles.

Math teacher: “What would you have if you had five apples in one hand and three in the other?” Student: “Huge hands.”

Did you know that oxygen was discovered in 1774? How did people breathe before that?

What would happen if there were no water on earth? We would all be thirsty.

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