Humor in education

These math answers are dedicated to my housemate, MD, a math teacher. Here is her class website. I was never good in mathematics, just enough to get my grade and run with it. The second one with the infinity explanation is hilarious.

As for science, here are some enticing responses from school children:

Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.

Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should.

Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother.

Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.

To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.

Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail.

Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man.

Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.

The wind is like the air, only pushier.