MLK Day
One friend makes pun-based jokes about Martin Luther King Jr. and calculus (integration, discriminants); the other is unamused.
Content note: Puns on civil-rights history (segregation/discrimination); teachers should judge context.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-01-15-mlk-day/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "Did you know MLK was a big advocate for calculus education?"
B: "Really? I thought mid-20th century curricula were more..."
A: "Yup. He spent years fighting for INTEGRATION."
[Silent panel]
A: "Not a big fan of quadratics, though. Hated discriminants."
B: "You're a bad person."