Math Cartoons

"Okay, ma'am, I'm going to ask you to walk a straight line; then I'm going to ask you to bisect that line with a perpendicular line that slopes to the equation y = 3x + 5."

"David's using algebra to calculate the tip. Barbara - would you mind being a fractional exponent?"

"What exactly are we saying here?"

"He ran some linear equations, threw in a few theorems, and before I knew it I was buying rust proofing."

(Hello. You've reached the IRS help line. Press 1 if you've been slightly negligent and need more time to procrastinate; press 2 if you're not very good at math and made some glaring errors; press 3 if you're a lying cheat and hope we won't notice