Counting

 

So in French, they count oddly. I don't know French, but I do know this. Actually I just looked it up (here) and they don't have specific numbers for 70 (“sixty-ten”), 80 (“four-twenties”), and 90 (“four-twenties-ten”)? So that's unique. But they do have a number for 30 (trente) however I think my comic's point still stands. Also this is an older comic that I took a while to draw - my kiddo knows how to count at least to one hundred so this is a throwback. 

Text:
L: 27, 28, 29 - what comes next?
R: Twenty-ten!
L: We are not French.

Abacus Ticketer

 

I would like someone to try this and see how it turns out. Let me know. Could be fun. Most likely will be awkward. 

Explanation: An abacus is an ancient mathematical counting device using beads on a grid. Many workplaces have a ticketing system where problems are described on tickets and workers can take a ticket to solve that problem. 

Text:
B: Ticket 103 needs to be completed by Friday - can I count on you to do it?
N: Just call me abacus.
B: I'm... not gonna do that, but I will assign the ticket to you.

Python Math

A little late, but yay my finger has healed to the point where typing is not painful, so that was only a few days out of commission. Still keeping it wrapped to limit movement and avoid catching the split on anything. 

 Before any panic ensues, the Python in question is a programming language. Why is it called python? That's a great question and I need to look that up. Haha, I NEVER would have guess that. Here's the link. The programming language is named after Monty Python's Flying Circus. As for this comic, I don't recall the article I read that inspired it. I learned Python for some tasks at my last job, and I don't recall having any issues with math in it but I was not using it for math functions - I was retrieving, modifying, and returning data with it. But since I was learning the language, I read a lot of articles on it and somehow this comic came into being. 

Text:
L: The more I learn about Python math, the more I just don't want to know.
R: Snakes can do math now?!?!?

Sin-Cos-Tan

Trig! I took trigonometry in college because I was a software engineering major. I minored in math because there was so much math in the major, I just had to take two calculus classes to get it (also, I avoided ALL science classes which I saw as a win). Alas, my college found out about this and changed the major (after I graduated thankfully) to having science electives instead of math/science electives so the overlap was greatly reduced. But with the overlap, I didn't have enough credits to graduate with just my major and minor (one credit short), so I took some random classes to fill my schedule - handbells, first aid, a computer hardware class, and others just for fun. It was nice.
My husband was the same minor/major as me but then he decided to double-major (adding computer information systems) which meant he had to drop his minor but he had already done the classes so on his transcript Calc I & II are listed as electives which makes him look like a nerd. I love my nerd.

Text:
N: Our profits are on a sinusoidal line.
L: Why not cosinusoidal?
N: Don't get me on a tangent.

Physical

I took all math for my math/science electives in college, so I don't know much about physics, but I don't think that's how it works. But we are physical, so maybe...
My college changed the Software Engineering requirements after I graduated and made the electives just science so I guess I was using a loophole to avoid all science classes in college (I didn't take a single one). Science is great and all but I don't overly enjoy it (I did enjoy parts of it, and I had a great teacher in high school who made it interesting).

Text:
A: Physics uses lots of math, and we use lots of math, therefore we are partially physical.
B: *Ow* (holding head)

Geometric Working an Angle

This was derived (haha) from the last comic which was extrapolated from a sermon titled "Plain Speech" which was not about math at all but I made the connection on my own. I don't know if I've used my protractor since graduation but there's a slim chance I have, in some sort of craft. But I cannot recall which one that would be. It's always good to have some math tools around in case.... I'm not sure what but surely there'd be a reason. Maybe I just can't part with them.

Also, Happy Father's Day to the best Dad and Dad-in-Law! I'm grateful for all that you've done for me and my man, and also specifically thankful for the love of math I got from my Dad.

Text:
Ruler: You're always working an angle!
Protractor: ...yes.

Geometric Straight Talk

Our pastor preached on the second half of Luke 6 and titled his sermon "Plain Speech" and that inspired this comic. You should listen to his sermon series on Luke - it is good.
I've used my compass a few times since finishing school because it's helpful with Pinterest crafts that require circles. I remember learning all the ways to use it in high school and I don't recall if I ever needed it in college, even with my math minor, but I'm glad I kept it so I could make an awesome unicorn birthday card for my niece.

Text:
Pencil: Give it to me straight!
Compass: I can't.

Discrete Math

For all the college students in the home stretch, you can do it! There's just finals standing in your way, and you can totally... study your brains out and do your best.
For all the high school students, you're not quite in the home stretch yet (private schools might be closer) unless you're a home schooler, in which case you could be done at this point or have a boat load to catch up and are going into a panic to try and finish before your public school friends (you have friends? lol).
For all the kids pre-high school, yeah this is just getting ridiculous at this point.

Halloween - Angle

Doing Things in Perpendicular

It works better to do them in parallel. Math!

Odd Road Sign

Odd of a Kind

Some of these comics were made right before I bought new black markers - mine was slowly dying.

Odd Couple

Pi-Rex

What's Your Sine

Cause I'm a nerd.