As part of my job, I sometimes get to write math exercises. It’s often easier to think of exercises that I cannot use in the book than exercises I can use in the book. I tend to share the ones that I feel would be well received with my coworkers. This week, I’ll share a few of these rejected math problems with you in the form of a true-or-false quiz.
While these can be seen as math jokes, I expect you to take this quiz seriously. Whether you think these math jokes are actually funny is not part of the quiz. If you were wondering about the grade level, these are technically for everyone but they do have a bit of a statistics focus.
That being said, I hope you completed your statistics reading. No cheating or copying answers, please.
True or False
- Convenience sampling is when you enter a convenience store and taste test items before making a purchase.
- Some students have received a placebo exercise.
- A pie chart is the menu at a pie shop.
- A bar graph is the map used by people participating in a pub crawl.
- An arithmetic mean is a mathematically phrase insult.
- A quartile is the aisle of a grocery store where items are sold in quarts.
- A discreet variable is a variable that tries to avoid notice.
If you are interested in earning some extra credit, then ruin the humor behind the math jokes by explaining them in the comments.