Gold In The Air
- Teacher: What's happens to gold when it is exposed to the air?
- Pupil: It's stolen!
- Teacher: What's happens to gold when it is exposed to the air?
- Pupil: It's stolen!
- Teacher: What are you reading?
- Pupil: I dunno!
- Teacher: But you're reading aloud!
- Pupil: But I'm not listening!
- Teacher: Were you copying his sums?
- Pupil: No Sir, just seeing if he got mine right!
- Teacher: Tommy, put some more water in the fish tank!
- Pupil: Why, Miss, I only put some in yesterday and he hasn't drunk that yet!
The teacher was giving her pupils a quiz on counting. Jackie got things started by counting from 1 to 10.
- Now, Fred - said the teacher - you take over, beginning with 11.
- 11, 14, 23, 42, 26 - said Fred.
- What kind of counting is that? - asked the teacher
- Who's counting? - replied Fred.
- I'm calling signals.
- If I had five coconuts and I gave you three, how many would I have left?
- I don't know.
- Why not?
- In our school we do all our arithmetic in apples and oranges.
Jackie stood quietly as her father examined her report card.
- What is this 45 in math? - asked her father.
- I think that's the size of the class - she said quickly!
- If you had one dollar and you asked your father for another, how many dollars would you have?
- One dollar.
- You don't know your arithmetic.
- You don't know my father!
- Fred: I got 100 in school today.
- Mother: Wonderful. What did you get 100 in?
- Jason: Two things: I got 50 in Spelling and 50 in History.
- Mother: Well, at least you can add!
- How are you doing in arithmetic?
- I've learned to add up the zeros, but the numbers are still giving me trouble.