A math riddle is:
Q: What’s a math teacher’s favorite dessert?
A: Pi(e).
The joke has been cited in print since at least 2008 and has been printed on several images.
Yahoo! Answers (September 10, 2008)
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Best Answer:
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What is a math teacher’s favorite dessert? Apple pi
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Kid Activities
School Jokes & Computer Jokes
June 29, 2009 23:05 by Barbara Shelby
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Q. What is a math teacher’s favorite dessert?
A. Pi!
Twitter
Fozzie Bear
@Fozzie_Bear
Q. What is a math teacher’s favorite dessert? A. Pi!
8:21 PM - 21 Aug 2009
Google Books
Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids
By Rob Elliott
Grand Rapids, MI: Revell
2010
Pg. 46:
Q: What was the math teacher’s favorite dessert?
A: Pi.
Twitter
Math Monkey
@MathMonkeySolon
What is a math teacher’s favorite dessert?
Pi!!!!!
1:12 PM - 28 Sep 2010
Google Books
December 2012, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 64, col. 1:
Max: What is the math teacher’s favorite dessert?
Miles: What?
Max: Pi.
Max Stewart, Tacoma, Wash.
10 August 2013, Newsday (Long Island, NY), “Smiles,” Kidsday, pg. B28:
What is a math teacher’s favorite dessert?
Pi.
- Jack Maccarone
B2C (Business 2 Community)
20 Pi Puns to Inspire Your Nerdiness
Grammarly — March 14, 2016
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11. What is a math teacher’s favorite dessert? Pi!
Google Groups: alt.fun.with.tob
Humor from the Net
Bill McCray
3/14/16
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What is a math teacher’s favorite dessert?
Pi!
Reddit—Jokes
What is a math teacher’s favorite dessert?
submitted March 15, 2016 by kimkawe
Pi(e)
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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