Riddle: What do mathematics teachers like to eat?
Answer: Pi.
Riddle: What happened to the plant in the math classroom?
Answer: It grew square roots, of course.
Riddle: What do you call two math friends?
Answer: Algebros!!
Riddle: What three whole, positive numbers have the same answer when multiplied together as when added together?
Answer: 1, 2 and 3. 1 x 2 x 3 = 1 + 2 + 3 = 6.
Riddle: What did one math book say to another?
Answer: I have so many problems.
Riddle: Take eight small sticks, four of which are half the length of the other four. How can you make three equal squares out of the sticks?
Answer: Use the longer four sticks to be sharing sides between the squares and at the end their should be three intertwined squares.
Riddle: What is the next number in the series?
7,645 5,764 4,576...
Answer: 6,457. The last digit is moved to the front to make the next number.
Riddle: If three cats catch three mice in three minutes, how many cats would be needed to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?
Answer: The same three cats would do. Since these three cats are averaging one mouse per minute, given 100 minutes, the cats could catch 100 mice.
Riddle: What arithmetic symbol can we place between 2 and 3 to make a number greater than 2 but less than 3?
Answer: A decimal point.
Riddle: A man is walking down a road with a basket of eggs. As he is walking he meets someone who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. He walks a little further and meets another person who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. After proceeding further he meets another person who buys one-half of his eggs plus one half an egg. At this point he has sold all of his eggs, and he never broke an egg. How many eggs did the man have to start with?
Answer: 7 eggs. The first person bought one half of his eggs plus one half an egg (3 1/2 + 1/2 = 4 eggs) This left him 3 eggs. The second person bought one-half of his eggs plus one half an egg, (1 1/2 + 1/2 = 2 eggs) leaving the man 1 egg. The last person bought one-half of his eggs plus one-half an egg, (1/2 + 1/2 = 1 egg) leaving no eggs.
