Random childhood anecdote, posted as individual toot in order to not derail some random joke post about kids these days not being into non-Euclidean geometry:

I have three siblings, spaced two years apart each. All four of us went to the same high school. My youngest sister's math teacher wanted to do a cute little segment about triangles always having inner angles sum up to 180 degrees. It was supposed to take the form of a trial. My sister was assigned the role of prosecutor charging a triangle accused of having an inner angle sum different from 180 degrees. Obviously, taking her role very seriously, she consulted the Schmieg dinner table, and a plan was hatched, involving a grapefruit and a marker. The trial came, and just as the defense had produced what they thought was irrefutable proof that their client was innocent, my sister took out the grapefruit, drew a triangle connecting one pole to the equator using three right angles, and said "So how do you explain this?!?" Leading to the teacher/judge having to explain non-Euclidean geometry to a bunch of 10 year olds.

And to make this anecdote even better, in a different class the same day she had a substitute teacher who didn't know my sister, but seeing the triangled up grapefruit, approached her and asked her "Are you a Schmieg?". Our family name has racked up quite some reputation…

@sophieschmieg In 4th grade, teacher was showing us long division, using 22÷7 .. which came out 3.1428... Teacher scratches his head and mutters that π is 3.14159... At which point I pipe up and say that 22-over-7 is an _approximation_ of pi and the teacher says "d'oh". We actually got along fins and he was the person who noticed that I'm short-sighted because I was squinting at the blackboard.