Previous Years Silly Questions Silly Questions Asked By My Students 2010/2011 Previous Years Here How do you make an angle really big? What do you call a triangle with 3 sides? How do you know what angle is on the inside? Who thought up the Pythagorean Theorem? Which hand on the second is the second hand? Is it the hour or the minute? Silly Questions Asked By My Students 2006-2007 Why can't blind people see blue? Is a piranha a type of elephant? What's 4 minus 3? Six? Is New England a state? What's a verb? What is 1 minus 2? Do you want me to draw a square square? What's the area code for 407? Why is Canada a part of the United States? Isn't Copenhagen a city in Denver? About the vocabulary test - "Do we need to know the words or the definitions?" How do you enter one half on the calculator? Is 1 squared one or two? What is six times two? What is the area code for a rhombus? What's four minus two? Is one an odd number? How long is a meter stick? Is Canada a foriegn country? Is this yellow? How do you take out a staple? Is it a reciept for the hitman? Silly Questions Asked By My Students 2005-2006 What is an open circle? How far is it from 1 to 3? What button on the calculator do I push to divide? Aren't 4/3 and -4/3 the same? Asked by a student in a biology lab class: "Where do I get the water from?" (student is standing beside the faucet.) What is six and a half as a decimal? Which is closer? Our sun or the north star? Student on phone says "hey grandma, do you know grandpa?" What's a student? Is -3 the same as 1/3? How do I draw a dot? How tall is 42 inches? To a teacher writing on an overhead projector: "Do you have to draw the mirror image to get it to show up correctly on the screen?" What is 1/3? Said by a student wanting me to listen to his new cd: "It's a Finnish band, but they speak american." Have the Razorbacks ever been in the Superbowl? How do I double it? Teacher about John Denver: "This singer built his own plane, and crashed it into the ocean and died." Student reply: "Well, then how'd he write a song about it?" The song playing was THIS OLD GUITAR. Did they name PlayDoh after Plato? Where's the bottom? What's a square triangle? What is a bar of gold? What does point seven mean? Aren't lungs and arteries the same thing? Is grass a plant? Can you see through this window? How do you draw a half circle? Is the sun a planet or a star? How many letters are in the alphabet? Silly Questions Asked By My Students 2004-2005 What is seven and a half as a decimal? What is zero squared? What is half of six? Where is the sun? How long is a yard stick? Is the answer 8 point ten? How did ***** make a 100% on her test? Is Berlin a country or what? Isn't the Berlin wall in China? Where is the Berlin wall? Is it half or one half? What is the square root of 1? What food starts with a Q? answer by student: Cucumber! What number is 27? Do we do problems 46 AND 47 or 46 THROUGH 47? Is this a square? (student is holding a square) After I cut these out (of a posterboard), can I use the back for the rest? The REAL Pentagon doesn't have 5 sides, does it? You are the visitor to this site.