Timeline for Use of mathematical humor suitable for motivation/explaination?
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| Mar 23, 2014 at 9:05 | comment | added | Mark Meckes | In most classes I teach, in one of the first lectures I make a bad joke that gets almost no response. I then tell the students that they should laugh at my jokes even when they're not funny, since I'm the one who assigns their grades and they want to keep me happy. That does get a laugh, and helps establish the kind of informal atmosphere I prefer when I'm teaching. | |
| Mar 21, 2014 at 0:57 | comment | added | David G | Or embrace your terrible joke telling ability and act as if the joke you just told was the most hysterical thing you've ever heard. This will work for all jokes, but puns or "dad jokes" are the best. | |
| Mar 20, 2014 at 12:19 | history | answered | user173 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |