It seems like Math teachers like to inject some form of weird humour into the math papers. I guess it’s the only subject that you can set questions that involves some subtle sense of humour.

Take our school papers for example: Mr “Farngow” (Cantonese for sleep) researching on the sleep times of children; “Kong Si Car Sharing” (Kong Si = Chinese? for sharing); “Ai Ying” (Loves to win), “Ai Du” (Loves to gamble), “Ai Wan” (Loves to play) for the names of “characters” in a probability question.

I did quite some papers to find such humour in other papers as well. A drink called “whatsoever”, “Jet-around travel agency” and so on.

I’m really afraid of Probability and permutations questions. =(

Tags: a-levels