April Fool’s Day: Fun with Math Fallacies

Photo by RBerteig. Take a break from “serious” math and have a little fun today with some classics of recreational mathematics. Do you have a favorite math or logic fallacy? Please share it in the Comments below.

Story Problem Fallacy

Algebra Fallacies

Geometry Fallacies

Edited to Add

I found this spoof of a famous number theory joke in my feed reader this afternoon…

3 thoughts on “April Fool’s Day: Fun with Math Fallacies

  1. I suppose upon using this clock, we will get younger by the seconds. Hurray! I can rectify all the major mistakes made before using back the conventional clock…

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