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When math-fearful believers need no longer suffer, if they would look up to Jesus, who died for them on the cross, whose blood has paid for every deliverance and healing of their addictions and afflictions—and this includes their freedom from mathophobia.
God can restore confidence in someone’s attitude towards math, be it by directing them to a better teacher, tutor, or textbook, because He wants them to live a fear-free math lifestyle.
by MathPlus January 8, 2019
Get the Fear-Free Mathmug. When someone conspicuously wears a π tattoo to publicly show their undeniable or unquestionable love for the irrational number.
Just because some gangsters have a pittoo on their forehead is no proof that they actually love the world’s most disliked school subject—on the contrary, it’d be very likely that they hate the symbol so much that they decided to wear it out of rebellion.
by MathPlus February 26, 2021
Get the Pittoomug. When the wearing of a face mask has turned into a divisive political issue in a number of countries that protect their citizens’ individual rights, whose selfish behaviors in donning zero masks in public in the midst of a pandemic crisis endanger the health of the majority.
Alt-right politicians are pushing their political mask agenda, by pretending to address the anti-social demands of a noisy minority to win their votes.
by MathPlus March 9, 2021
Get the Political Maskmug. When desperately needed foreign workers trained to slaughter and process turkeys reared for Christmas are not allowed in the country unless they serve their 14-day quarantine on arrival, whose absence would affect producers with low supply and consumers with high price.
Thanks to Covid-🦃, a lucky percentage of the nine million turkeys in the UK would have their lives spared during this 2020 Christmas period.
by MathPlus October 22, 2020
Get the Covid-🦃mug. Short for Singapore Math. A mélange of the best math curriculums from the East and the West, which has arguably led Singapore students to repeatedly rank top in international comparative studies like PISA and TIMSS.
In emoji, 🇸🇬 🔢 = (🇺🇸 + 🇬🇧 + 🇨🇳 + 🇰🇷 + 🇷🇺 + 🇮🇱) × 🔢—the six main mathematical ingredients Singapore apparently used to bake its own cake, which is now popular among tens of thousands of math educators and homeschoolers worldwide.
by MathPlus December 10, 2020
Get the 🇸🇬 🔢mug. When we deceive ourselves and allow others to deceive us on myths, mysteries, and magic in mathematics, be they via half-baked concepts, faux hypotheses, fallacies, paradoxes, tricks, and the like.
How can we fall for less magical thinking in mathematics? By teaching about faulty thinking habits, exposing false assumptions or hypotheses, warning against unquestioned extrapolation or generalization of rules or formulas, and debunking irrational or conspiratorial thinking.
by MathPlus May 5, 2023
Get the Magical Thinking in Mathematicsmug. When vaccinated persons still need to don a mask when they are in crowded places like stadiums and churches, although the odds of them getting infected or infecting others are relatively low—no vaccines can protect them 100% from infection or reinfection.
Mandating a mask-lite strategy in public places, where social distancing is impossible to implement, is likely to be the new normal habit post-pandemic.
by MathPlus June 9, 2021
Get the Mask-litemug.