‘Dear Maths, please learn to solve your own problems’: 25 Math Memes to Sum Some Joy to Your Day (October 24, 2026)

Melissa Knudson • Writer

Oct 25, 2026 12:30 PM EDT

Why do I need to prove a triangle is a triangle? It's not even a real triangle.

We truly don't give math enough praise. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's fun or easy, but there is something about math we should always be grateful for. It is universal. A language we can all understand, and that goes beyond proper grammar or specific location. And when I say "understand", I really mean "struggle with". Since its origins, math has joined humanity in a way no other subject has before, by making all students (near, far, at sea, or in any other place) cry just the same before a math test.

So, whenever you feel like you have nothing in common with someone, just reminisce about the time you used to be able (sort of) to solve a geometry question with the Pythagorean theorem. Alternatively, it also works to think back to those golden years whenever you need to look for something to appreciate adulthood for. Adulthood is hard, but at least we don't have to keep pretending we all know how to solve an irrational equation because, yes, they can get quite irrational indeed.

That said, here's your official throwback to math class, via excellent memes. While you travel to the time you used to spend your afternoons wondering what on earth is a 0, send this list to a friend and reconnect with them by going back to the trauma that bonded you.

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via woa
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via Angel🪽✨
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via Ellie Stephens
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via @MathsVids
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via Miyuki Fawn
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via ᴧиджиᴧᴀ ᯓ★
When I was a high school student, I remember there was always one kid who just got it. He had no problem with the vertices, the fractions, and the conditionals. He was a rare math pro. In that case, math still bonded us, but through one-sided trauma. I asked him to tutor when the final exams were up, and my desperation to understand why on earth there is a YXZ in a math textbook, and his lack of patience, ended up bringing us together for life. To this day, when the calculator refuses to cooperate, I can give him a call and get a not-so-friendly explanation.
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via @louvregguk
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via funny.mobi
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via @50FirstTates
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via Sophie
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via Talitha Garcia
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via TheFunnyBeaver.Com
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via Judy Quinn
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via Sharon Elford
Math is many things, for example, a metaphor for life itself. No matter how many times we try, and how good we get at linear equations, as they seem easy, we still get the answer wrong constantly. We need to cry a little, call a friend, and try again until those symbols start making a little sense. Also, once you feel like you’ve got it all figured out, no worries, there’s always a new level of difficulty. You thought letters mixed with numbers was challenging enough? Think again, my friends, because that is about the time we got introduced to letters that didn’t even exist in the alphabet.
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via Becca
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via lana🇵🇸🇱🇧
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via ifunny.co / percy_potter
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via SABC1 / Memedroid
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via 9GAG
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via Dua Kaylani
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via ‡Kakashi Hatake‡
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via S C
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via TheHahaverse
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via Mars
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via black pink
Dear math, I love you and appreciate you, but please, give me a break and stop adding rules to the rules I already can’t remember. Also, please keep showing up on my Instagram feed in the shape of very simple equations I can actually solve, because it makes me feel brilliant. And for all the mathematicians and brilliant friends out there, here are some appreciation memes.