Droodles have been invented by Roger Price in 1950s.

These were rather abstract drawings of few lines accompanied by an implicit question - "What is it?" A punc h line - the author's answer - made the drawings obvious. Everyone I talked to k new one or more droodles, but not everyone had heard the word. I find this stran ge because of their popularity in the 1950s and 60s. There's still a small indus try making a living off droodle party napkins and droodle bibs. Etymologically s peaking, the word droodle derives from riddle doodle or, if you prefer, doodle r iddle. (A quick search on the web produced a couple of later day interpretations . A dragon doodle is a kind of art with Celtic motives. An example is also avail able of a drool doodle which is a unique and an accidental creation of a budding artist who happened to nod in a (math?) class over one of his doodles.) Droodles found their way into education. Besides their entertaining value, drood les are thought to foster creativity in children (and adults.) The Exploratorium uses droodles to teach children that "It's easiest to remember stuff that makes sense to you and connects with other stuff you know." The expected punch line is seldom the only sensible answer. In cognitive researc h, this observation led to investigation of "young children's grasp of the princ iple that two or more persons might differently interpret one and the same stimu lus event." Well, that's all good and exciting. Not only in mathematics but in other walks o f life ideas conceived in one context become useful in another. But does the for egoing introduction have a punch line? Here it comes. There exist mathematical d roodles and using them in instruction might be a valuable educational tool. What is a mathematical droodle? As a preliminary definition, a mathematical droodle is a visual object accompanied by a "What is it?" question to which there is at least one plausible answer with mathematical contents. The concept might not be altogether new. Much appreciated Proofs Without Words f it the Description. But the class of mathematical droodles is broader by far. A PWW naturally presents a proof. Mathematical droodles may present any mathematic al idea, not necessarily a proof. PWWs are about why, mathematical droodles are about what. Here's an example that I hope does not even require a punch line.