The Good Kind of Headache
A student complains that math gives them a headache while a whole cosmos swirls above their head.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-01-01-the-good-kind-of-headache/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A (at desk): "Ugh. This math is giving me a headache." [Above their head: a swirling universe of suns, galaxies and comets] B: "But… what if it's the good kind of headache?"