270 definitions by Fasters
An English tourist (who is a linguist professor back home) was reported to have experienced a seconds-long stroke on seeing the “Mathematic’s books” classification, and the cashier on seeing her customer’s dizziness immediately jumped to her rescue.
by Fasters December 12, 2022
The feeling of anger, stupidity, and loss when someone feels alienated for not being able to participate in casual conversations with their geeky colleagues and friends, who never stop cracking and sharing pi jokes and factoids on mathematics’s most beloved day of the year.
Guesstimate how percents of math-anxious folks worldwide suffer from the Pi Day Syndrome to some degree, without being consciously aware of it.
by Fasters July 17, 2023
Publishing houses that rob their star authors to pay bonuses to their oft-underpaid and overworked editors and their bosses, using all kinds of creative strategies to avoid getting caught, while family-owned publishers would notoriously overpay themselves and their loved ones or relatives first, but underpay their employees.
Even in low-corruption Singapore, it’s an open secret that Robinhood publishers continue to thrive, because most authors who’ve a sixth sense of being shortchanged couldn’t afford the legal means to suing them for their decades-long shady business practices.
by Fasters October 21, 2022
When white Christian nationalists or ultra-MAGA patriots subscribe to the radical pedagogy that adopting (or adapting part of) the Singapore math curriculum would only adulterate theirs, because exposing local students to alien problem-solving strategies and heuristics under the guise of multicultural math or ethnomathematics would only give undue credit to foreign curriculum math specialists and publishers.
A number of white or “woke” curriculum censors are covertly working hand in hand with American textbook publishers to push for the wokenization of Singapore math, with both parties having a vested interest to ensure that dear inch-deep-mile-wide K–12 math textbooks rather than value-for-money foreign math titles inundate as many states and local schools as possible.
by Fasters May 10, 2023
What Facebook employees are unofficially being called by fellow geeks, as “the Zuck” shift their attention to the Metaverse or to the world of virtual reality (VR).
Math geeks who are bewitched or mesmerized by what the Metaverse could offer the physical world in coming years or decades have a very high chance of being recruited as Metamates.
by Fasters June 14, 2022
Provocative or subversive math questions set by allegedly mean or wicked educators in Hong Kong, whose aim is to brainwash students, by sowing the "seed of instability" in the once-democratically free colonial city and across totalitarian China.
A middle school teacher in Xinjiang was sent to a reeducation camp for two years after he’s found guilty of setting some sheep-and-wolves math questions, one of which is the following: “In a village, a pack of eight wolves have encircled a pen that encloses a hundred and ten sheep. Guesstimate how many sheep could lose their lives before the shepherd and his two assistants arrived on the scene to rescue his flock.”
by Fasters September 10, 2022
The videos of live lessons by Australian superstar high school math teacher, Eddie Woo, who has successfully put the magic in math, and his YouTube channel that woos educators with classroom teaching ideas and interviews about mathematics.
Considering his difficult formative years when he’s frequently bullied and discriminated in the predominantly white school milieu he’s in, and taking into account that math wasn’t his favorite school subject, Wootube is nothing short of a miracle—a living proof that God took notice when others meant to harm Eddie, and today He’s rewarding him with a double portion of His blessing.
by Fasters July 10, 2022