Total Nonsense (Achievement #9 = 3 points + 3 bonus points)

Math in school was my bugbear

There was just so much, it wasn't fair

Arithmetic I understood - it was the only one

Unlike real branches overhead, the others were no fun

How did they know A + B = C?

Maybe they equalled two or three

Sure didn't make sense to me

Neither did trig or geometry,

And calculus? I mean, what four*

Another branch? How many more?

Five, six, seven, eight?

No wonder it was a subject I grew to hate

The one day I'd had enough

I shouted nein!* And showed my stuff

With an example I'd prepared

On the board I wrote, Pi-r-squared

Then turned and smugly looked around

Counted to ten and did expound

Pi-aren't squared, Pi are round!

*poetic license