Celebrate March 14—aka Pi Day—with these corny math jokes, puns and one-liners
40 Pi Day Jokes and Puns to Tell on March 14
Funniest Pi Day jokes
- What TV show can help you grasp infinite numbers?
Magnum P.I.
- Don’t let advanced math intimidate you!
It’s as easy as pi!
- Why is pi so lucky in love?
Because its love is infinite and non-repeating.
- What’s the ideal way to serve pi?
A la mode! Anything less is mean.
- What’s the best way to visualize infinity?
With a pi chart!
- The moon’s not made of cheese.
It’s a pi in the sky!
- Why should you never talk to pi?
Because he’ll just go on forever. (Gotta love a short joke dedicated to pi!)
- What kind of snake does your math teacher own?
A pi-thon.
- What do you get when you take a bovine and divide its circumference by its diameter?
A cow pi.
- What did pi say to its partner?
Stop being so irrational.
- The roundest knight at Sir Arthur’s table was Sir Cumference.
He ate too much pi.
- What was Sir Isaac Newton’s favorite dessert?
Apple pi.
Best math jokes
- Why do teenagers travel in groups of three?
Because they can’t even.
- A farmer counted 196 cows in the field.
But when he rounded them up, he had 200.
- What do you call a number that can’t keep still?
A roamin’ numeral.
- Why don’t calculus majors throw house parties?
Because you should never drink and derive.
- Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip?
To get to the same side.
- What do you need to grow your trigonometry skills?
Square roots.
- What kind of math do you learn in English class?
Add-verbs and add-jectives.
- Math is a part of nature.
Especially geometry (geome-tree.)
- When is math like poetry?
When you do an in-verse variation.
- Why can math books be so depressing?
Because they’re filled with problems.
- Why should you never mention the number 288?
It’s two gross.
- Why was the math lecture so long?
Because the professor kept going off on a tangent.
- Parallel lines have so much in common.
It’s too bad they’ll never meet.
- What happens when you put a root beer in a square glass?
It just becomes beer.
- How do you do math in your head?
Using imaginary numbers.
- What’s the best formula to get from point A to point B?
Just take an x-y plane or a rhom-bus.
- Where should you do your math homework?
On a multiplication table.
- Why does algebra make you a better dancer?
Because you can use algo-rhythms.
Mathematician jokes
- An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar.
The first says, “I’ll have a beer.” The second says, “I’ll have half a beer.” The third says, “I’ll have a quarter of a beer.”
Before anyone else can speak, the bartender fills up exactly two glasses of beer and serves them.
“Come on now,” he says to the group. “You guys have got to learn your limits.”
- What’s the best way to woo a mathematician?
Use acute angle.
- How do mathematicians scold their children?
“If I’ve told you n times, I’ve told you n+1 times …”
- What did the math wiz say when asked if he saw the statistician?
Probably.
- What happens when mathematicians get old?
They just lose some of their functions.
- Why do mathematicians like parks?
Because of all the natural logs.
- Where do mathematicians party?
In bar graphs.
- Did you hear about the statistician who drowned crossing a river?
It was three feet deep on average.
- What do you call a mathematician who becomes a secret agent?
A s-pi.
- Did you hear about the mathematician who’s afraid of negative numbers?
He’ll stop at nothing to avoid them.
Additional reporting by Brandon Specktor and Emma Taubenfeld.
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