75 Funny Math Puns That’ll Add Fun to Class

Math is the only subject where you can spend hours staring at letters and numbers, and still not know if you’re solving for love or a missing sock. It teaches us patterns, logic, and the secret language of the universe—also known as Math Puns. Even when you don’t understand what the equation wants from you, a pun might sneak in and make you laugh before you cry.

Now, Math Puns aren’t just clever word games, they’re survival tools. Once during algebra class, our teacher said something about variables, and someone cracked a pun so perfectly bad that even the chalkboard gave up. That’s the magic. Math might test your brain, but a pun tests your ability to groan, laugh, and keep solving with slightly more joy than before.

Best Math Puns

1. Sleeping in math class is a calculated risk.
2. I know a mathematician who can’t afford lunch. He can binomial.
3. If a math teacher has 5 bottles in one hand and 6 in the other, what does she have? A drinking problem.
4. I was 16 minutes late for my first math lecture, 8 minutes late for the second, and 4 minutes late for the third. At this rate, I’ll never be there on time.
5. To the mathematicians who thought of the idea of zero… Thanks for nothing.
6. If I got 50¢ for every math test I’ve failed. I would have $7.20 by now.
7. Not all math puns are bad. Just sum.
8. My math teacher called me average… How mean.
9. I failed my math exam because I couldn’t remember how to write 1, 1000, 51, 6, and 500 as Roman numerals. IM LIVID.
10. My Math teacher told me 0! = 1 But my computer teacher told me 0 != 1 
11. Just saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that read “truth+God=life.” Thank god I’m good at math. Truth = life – God.
12. My maths teacher never goes outside. I can tell, cos there’s no sin of his tan.
13. Why must you wear your glasses when doing math?? Because it helps with da vision!
14. I think my math teacher works for the CIA… He always wants to put radicals in isolation.
15. I somehow managed to make it through high school math while only being able to remember even numbers. What are the odds?
16. I was horrible in school. I failed math so many times I can’t even count.
17. I know a mathematician who can’t afford lunch. He can binomial.
18. My maths teacher fell down the stairs while he was carrying a bunch of probability textbooks I guess you could say the odds were stacked against him.
19. I have a scary math joke but I’m 2² to say it.
20. My math class buddy needs a loan. She wants me to cosine it.

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21. Puns make me numb, but math puns make me… Number.
22. What do you call a man who tries to use magic to solve math? A math magician.
23. I love having mathematician parents. I can get them to cosine on anything!
24. Dear Math, Grow up and solve your own problems.
25. Flat earth theory should be called Euclidean geography.
26. I’m sorry, the number you have dialed is imaginary. Please hang up, rotate your phone 90 degrees, and dial again.
27. You may not know this, but 19 + 5 = 4!
28. What do call a chicken that likes math? A mathmachicken.
29. I’ve decided to become a math teacher, but I’m only going to teach subtraction. I just want to make a difference.
30. 85% of Americans don’t know how to do basic math. Thank god I’m part of the other 25%.
31. “Dad, can you do my math homework for me?” “No son, it wouldn’t be right.” “Well, at least you could try.”
32. I had to break up with my math teacher girlfriend. She was still obsessed with an X.
33. Math is hard, 15+15 is thirty… But 16+16 is thirty too.
34. A math major’s girlfriend is equal to the square root of -100. A perfect 10 but also imaginary.
35. Why was the math book so depressed? It had so many problems.

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36. I’m starting a business to help short people learn math. I’m going to call it making the little things count.
37. People often ask me why I prefer to teach math instead of English. I tell them it’s because fractions speak louder than verbs.
38. If the radius of a pizza is “a” and its thickness is “z”… Then its volume is “pizza”.
39. What is the ocean’s favorite type of math? Algaebra.
40. Al Gore should start a math rock band. He could call it Al Gore Rhythms.
41. Don’t go to the tattoo artist that used to be a math teacher. They really did a number on me.
42. What’s an elephant’s favorite math operation? Truncation.
43. I’m not usually opinionated about math… but there is a fine line between numerator and denominator.
44. I had to drag a math professor into the car dealership. They said I needed a cosiner to get a new car loan, I could not sine it by myself.
45. Monsters aren’t usually good at math unless you count Dracula.
46. The Marvel Cinematic Universe must be running out of ideas… one of their new shows is about a Spanish guy doing math problems… It’s called Juan Division.
47. What temperature is best for baking a pie? 360 degrees, that way you get 2pi.
48. I finished a graduate level probability class recently. Not everyone liked it but it had its moments.
49. Two cats sliding down a roof which one falls off first? The one with the lowest μ.
50. I, for one, like Roman Numerals.

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51. Why should powerlifters study math? Because there’s strength in numbers.
52. I like maths but graphs are where I draw the line.
53. There are 10 types of people in this world: Those who know binary. Those who don’t. Those who didn’t expect this joke to be in base 3.
54. Why was Fibonacci afraid of 5? Because 5 ate 13.
55. The area is equal to pi Arrrr squared.
56. A nerd remembering his past is going back to his square roots.
57. The math teacher made sure to bring in two pies for the class on his birthday so he would have enough to go around.
58. f(x) goes to sit down in a restaurant, the waiter stops him before he gets there and says, “Sorry, we don’t cater for functions.”
59. What’s the opposite of ln(x)? Duraflame, the unnatural log.
60. A comathematician is a comachine for turning cotheorems into ffee.
61. What is the integral of 1/(cabin) d(cabin) ? Beach house! ln(cabin) +c (natural log cabin plus sea)
62. Of all the primes, 2 is the oddest.
63. Why can’t you grow wheat in Z mod 6? Because Z mod 6 isn’t a field.
64. The “B” in “Benoit B. Mandelbrot” stands for “Benoit B. Mandelbrot”.
65. What do you call a reader of a category theory journal? A co-author.

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66. A mathematician can’t tell the different between a nut and a coconut.
67. What does a drowning Number theorist say? “Logloglogloglog…”
68. I don’t usually make mathematical puns unless I’m desperate. But I’ll make one if I half two.
69. I used to think math was useless but then I realised decimals have a point.
70. As a child, I was obsessed with the difference between sine and cosine. As I got older, I realised it was just a phase.
71. Why aren’t jokes in base 8 funny? Because 7 10 11.
72. A comathematician is a machine for converting cotheorems into ffee.
73. Where do evil mathematicians go? Prism.
74. Do math majors graduate with degrees or radians?
75. It’s trivial to show that any group of plants is a field.

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