Math Class Coin Flip

Today in math class we had to do an activity where we had to flip coins. The teacher said that we had to flip some coins, remove all of the heads, count them, and put the rest of the coins back in the cup and repeat until we had no coins left. I’m not sure what we were supposed to get out of that activity, but I got 15 dead bodies.

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The joke plays on the double meaning of the word 'heads'. In a coin flip, 'heads' refers to one side of the coin. The speaker in the joke, however, interprets 'heads' as literal human heads. The activity, which is innocuous in a math class, is twisted to a morbid scenario where the student is removing and counting human heads instead of coins. It's dark and unexpected, leading to the humor.

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Now thats my kind of teacher

Is that why I was arrested in kindergarten?