This collection of trigonometry jokes and puns will help bring a spark of fun and humor to your trig lessons. Get ready to make your students laugh! (Or groan…)
As a high school math teacher, I have been collecting mathematical jokes and math puns for years to add to my math lessons. I want to make it easy for you to do the same with these funny trigonometry puns.
These hilarious trig jokes are school-appropriate and teacher approved. These jokes would be appropriate for any trigonometry or precalculus class at the high school or university level. If you teach more than just trigonometry, I suggest checking out my collection of over 100 of the best math jokes or my free printable math joke of the week posters. I also have an entire collection of geometry jokes.
General Trigonometry Jokes
- Why was the trigonometry book sad? It had a lot of problems.
- What did one trigonometry book say to the other? Don’t bother me! I’ve got my own problems.
- What is the best way to pass a trigonometry test? Know all the angles.
- Why wasn’t the trigonometry teacher at school? Because she sprained her angle!
- What is a trigonometry teacher’s favorite animal? A hippopotenuse. (hypotenuse)
Sin, Cos, and Tan Jokes
These trig jokes feature the three basic trig functions: sine, cosine, and tangent.
- Why couldn’t the angle get a loan? His parents wouldn’t cosine.
- What do you call a gentleman who spent all the summer at the beach? A tangent.
- Why didn’t sin and tan go to the party? Just cos.
- How do deaf mathematicians communicate? Sine language
- Why was math class so long? The teacher kept going off on a tangent.
- Why did the math professor divide sin by tan? Just cos.
- Why should you take your math teacher to the bank with you? Because he/she will be the best person to cosine for you.
- Why did a priest refuse to learn trigonometry? Because it is full of sin.
- What do mortgages and trigonometry have in common? You have to sine and cosine.
- What do you call a researcher who is good at trigonometry? A sinentist!
- What is the opposite of a stop sign? A cosine. (A go sign!)
- What does trigonometry have in common with the beach? Tangents.
- Why did you divide sin by tan? Just cos.
- What is a trigonometry teacher’s favorite food? COS Law! (coleslaw)
Csc, Sec, and Cot Jokes
These jokes feature the reciprocal trig functions: cosecant, secant, and cotangent.
- What do you call an insect that’s not feeling well? A secant (sick ant)
- Why should you always follow your instincts when doing trigonometry? Because you might have secant thoughts and go off on a tangent
Triangle Jokes
- What did the triangle say to the circle? You’re pointless!
- Which triangles are the coldest? Ice-sosceles Triangles
- Why is the obtuse triangle always upset? It is never right.
- Why did the 30-60-90 triangle marry the 45-45-90 triangle? They were right for each other.
- Why was the triangle the MVP of the basketball team? It always made three-pointers.
- What do you call a teapot of boiling water on top of a mountain? A high-pot-in-use.
- Why did Albert Einstein and Pythagoras go to small claims court? To fight for possession of C squared!
- What do they call the longest side of a right triangle in the forest? A Hypoten-Moose!
Angle Jokes
- Why did the obtuse angle go to the beach? It was over 90 degrees.
- What do you call an angle that is adorable? Acute angle
- How do you keep warm in a cold room? You go to the corner because it’s always 90 degrees.
- Why did the mathematician spill all of his food in the oven? The directions said, “Put it in the oven at 180°”.
- What do mathematicians do after a snowstorm? Make snow angles!
- Did you hear about the overeducated circle? It has 360 degrees!
- Why are obtuse angles always sad? Because they are never right.
Pi Jokes
- What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter? Pumpkin Pi
- Why should you never start a conversation with pi? It’ll just go on forever.
- Why did Pi get its driver’s license revoked? Because it didn’t know when to stop.
- What’s the official animal of Pi day? The Pi-thon!
- What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter? Pi in the sky
- Why isn’t pi on Twitter? Because 280 characters isn’t enough to express itself.
- What was Isaac Newton’s favorite dessert? Apple pi.
- What do you call a mathematician who doubles as a private investigator? Magnum Pi.
- What’s the math teacher’s favorite dessert? Pi.
- How many bakers does it take to bake a pi? 3.14.
- Why shouldn’t you eat too much pi? You’ll end up with a large circumference.
- What do you get when a bunch of sheep hang out in a circle? Shepherd’s pi.
- What did pi say in a fight with its brother? You’re being irrational.
- What’s the best way to visualize infinity? Using a pi chart.
- What did the mathematicians order at the restaurant on March 14th? Chicken pot pi.
- What do mathematicians and the Air Force have in common? They both use pi-lots.
- What’s the best way to serve pi? A la mode. Anything else is mean.
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