Chicken Math 101 – with Quiz!

I absolutely love this! So entertaining and a neat idea!

Haha! I thought I had a nine chicken flock, but I guess I have a zero chicken flock. Time to get some more chickens...hehehehe...

Best of class ! I thoroughly enjoyed this class ! A class act ! Thank you from one Mama hen , lol

Having been doing this math for many years years with people, I am thrilled to find a full set of lecture notes complete with examples. Much kudos and many blessings to the chooky professor, may their flock never increase by official numbers, only visually grow by feathered bodies seen and buckbucks heard!

Sending the best from Australia.

Excellent article on how chicken math works. SO much easier to understand than your typical math.

Hilarious especially explaining to hubby!

I love the math and the proofs! Ridiculously hilarious! Someone had an awfully lot of time on their hands to come up with all this.

Brilliantly explained!!!!

Hilarious!

My partner and I had a good laugh over this article at lunch today. It really brightened our day, and we especially loved all the diagrammed mathematical proofs! Thanks so much for some much needed and well thought out chicken humor today!

I literally laughed out loud. Love this!

Very good information. Just today I was gifted 7 chicks so I have 0 in my flock. I can get more!

This is the BEST. Made me laugh all the way through and reminded me of the dieter who's calories do and don't count depending on whether you ate the brownie out of the box or sitting down LOL

This greatly enhanced my understanding of rounding whole numbers. Bravo to the author.

Love it!
I know this is just for fun, but in case anyone else was frustrated by missing question 6, the answer should be 9. The first Bantam should be counted as zero!

I love this! No one else seems to understand my accounting, and now I know why - they just haven’t been taught chicken math!!

The struggle is real

This is absolutely true!!
I'd never heard about "Chicken Math" before I found this awesome place. I'm familiar with the idea, though. Ahem. So, I took my kiddo and my partner's kiddo along, to "buy a few new chicks"
Yep. Each additional chick was a "can't live without!!" I'd planned on about 8-9, we ended up with 40+
That went.....well. Yep.

Makes perfect logical sense to me!

This is quite possibly the best thing I've ever read on BYC! I was wondering how to add more chickens to my flock; sadly, I now realize I only have 1. No wonder I felt like I needed more!

Now, I can't just get one chick -- it would be lonely. And if I get 2, one might die, leaving the other lonely. Therefore, the only safe number of chicks is 3. But since 3 chicks is only 2 chicks, I need to get at least 6 chicks to have that safe number. It's all clear now! And if those 6 chicks are all different breeds, that's really only 1 chicken in the end. The possibilities are endless (as is the chick order!)!

Perfect, except for one TINY thing.... The intuition statement followed by the student statement..

"it is intuitively obvious that..."
"The exercise will be left to the student..." but of course it will because CHICKEN MATH