fractions

A five-panel SMBC comic. A woman tells a man that a lot of adults think one-third is smaller than one-fourth, probably because four is bigger than three. The man says that's bad; she says it's an opportunity. She proposes a tax system where people who pay one-fourth of their income can click a box to instead pay one-third, declaring they should fight to make a world where people are incentivized to understand mathematics. A caption reads 'Many successes later...' over a newspaper whose headline reads 'ALL MATH CLASS CANCELED; TAX REVENUE TO RISE,' with a subhead beside a politician spreading his arms: 'Governor predicts "This many" revenue.' The joke: exploiting mathematical illiteracy for tax revenue backfires into killing math education entirely. Votey: a crude hand-drawn line graph with the vertical axis labeled 'more money' and the horizontal axis labeled 'many more money,' a red line rising to an up-arrow in the top right, mocking innumerate metrics.