Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 02, 2018

Don’t worry, Calvin. Your teacher will give you partial credit if you show the work.

You have to be kidding, never heard of such a thing. Maybe in Calvinville.

Wake up Calvin, use your fingers and toes.

The advanced problem is sitting to your left!

I tended to badly overthink math problems like this in school. I remember the teacher took me aside once and told me I had the most spectacularly complex, convoluted method for getting the wrong answer she had ever seen.

This sounds like the ‘Calvinball’ version of math. Or alternatively, Wayside School math…

Q: How many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb?

A: That’s left as an exercise for the reader…

I knew a kid in 5th grade who would get almost all the answers right, but whenever he was asked to show his work his methods were always wrong. He would do the wrong method the wrong way and constantly get right answers!

Fingers and toes.

Now we know that when Calvin grew up he became a congressman!

I remember when the teacher first brought up division. The other kids seemed to understand this arcane art, I did not! It took my father a long time to get me to understand the mystery of division.

If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, … then baffle them with bull_ _ _ _.

I think it’s 11.

As a sometime math tutor to family and friends I have seen a lot of methods, starting with New Math in 8th grade. There have been a lot of methods over the years and I have taught to even the dumbest ones (class requirements) until Common Core math came along. I could handle addition and subtraction (although it is like hopping on one foot while holding the other) but multiplication and division are insufferable. I taught my 4th grade grandson how it is classically done and what work the teacher wanted to see and he got an A on his report card. The universal complaint of the frustrated math student is “just show me how to do the problem!”

Clearly Tiger math works on a different system of logic.

Why not elect Hobbes? He couldn’t do worse than anyone in office today.

Tiger Math: as confusing as New Math.

Algebra was much easier in ancient Rome. X was always 10.

This actually makes more sense than how to do math in Common Core-based examples.

He must be using (Abbott & ) Costelloian math…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HvGven4qJ0

Algebra. So sickeningly hard in College. If I had taken it as early as first grade, I don’t think I would’ve ever wanted to return to school.

It’s 11 of course. Hobbes would be a terrible math tutor. ;)

There are 10 different kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.

There are 10 different kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA

And here I sit, 45 years later never once having to solve for X or Y….

I find it intriguing that Hobbes knows Latin.

@markmossi: Unfortunately the same thing can’t be said of present occupants.

This could be taken as a sign that Hobbes is not a separate entity from Calvin’s imagination. He doesn’t seem to know anything that Calvin doesn’t; he merely fakes it.

Thank you Hobbes! You always brighten my day in these Trumpian times.

Hobbes, that was impressive! That is just like listening to John Hagee interpret biblical `prophecy`—best watched by standing on one`s head.

Remember, Hobbes is just in Calvin’s imagination, so Calvin knows just as much as Hobbes does. XD Sounds like Calvin should teach Hobbes a few things.

I like how Hobbes looks in the second panel and how Calvin looks in the third lol

Ill bet you don’t show your work