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This research explores how different types of humor used by mathematics teachers influence student engagement and relationships with students.

December 11, 2025Frontiers in PsychologyOpen Access

Should mathematics teachers be humorous? A study based on the instructional humor processing theory

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This research explores how different types of humor used by mathematics teachers influence student engagement and relationships with students.
Surveyed 326 secondary school students
Analyzed data using PLS-SEM
Examined relationships between humor types and student engagement
Mathematics-related humor positively affected teacher-student relationships
Other-disparaging humor had a significant positive effect on student engagement
Mathematics-unrelated humor negatively impacted teacher-student relationships

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Study finds teacher humor affects student engagement and teacher-student relationships, suggesting effective humor styles matter.

Wijaya et al. (2025) studied this question.

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