--- title: Math Professor Pulls Hilarious April Fools Day Prank on Class description: Watch a math teacher pull an epic prank on his math class for April Fools Day 2015 canonical: https://time.com/3769495/april-fools-day-2015-math-professor-prank/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-02T19:15:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:19.952Z og:title: Watch This Math Professor Prank His Class in the Most Elaborate Way og:description: Watch This Math Professor Pull the Best Prank on His Class og:url: https://time.com/3769495/april-fools-day-2015-math-professor-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Math Professor Prank His Class in the Most Elaborate Way twitter:description: Watch This Math Professor Pull the Best Prank on His Class twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Professor Teach His Class a Thing or Two about Pranks  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 2, 2015 7:15 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 2, 2015 7:15 PM UTC [Matthew Weathers,](http://www.facebook.com/MatthewWeathers) a math professor at Biola University and technology whiz, often treats his class to performances that mix live action and video. He starts off by showing a clip of himself botching a trigonometry lesson in a YouTube tutorial. Then the whole show turns into him yelling at this digital version of himself, even stepping behind the projector screen to look like he is inserting himself into this Windows Desktop. Pretty soon, the mini-mes are fighting and throwing Chrome and Firefox web browser icons at each other. His 2010 prank boasts more than 6.1 million views on YouTube. Math Professor Pulls Hilarious April Fools Day Prank on Class ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3769495/april-fools-day-2015-math-professor-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3769495/april-fools-day-2015-math-professor-prank/"},"headline":"Watch a Professor Teach His Class a Thing or Two about Pranks","datePublished":"2015-04-02T19:15:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:19.952Z","description":"No advanced math knowledge necessary to enjoy this trigonometry lesson","url":"https://time.com/3769495/april-fools-day-2015-math-professor-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3769495/april-fools-day-2015-math-professor-prank/","name":"Watch a Professor Teach His Class a Thing or Two about Pranks"}}]}] ```