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Bat Math

Brain-unfriendly or fiendish math questions that leverage on the public’s mixed attitude vis-à-vis the oft-feared bat, which has so far received bad publicity or negative press in the aftermath of unproven claims that it was the vector for the coronavirus pandemic.

Two examples of bat math are:
a) Today is Friday the 13th. Trump’s spiritual guide recommends that he should drink the blood of a bat 666 days from today to live a "normal” life free from nightmares and demonic attacks. What day of the week would he perform that dreaded ritual?
b) Given that 🦠 + 🦇= 76 and 🦠 × 🦇 = 19, what is the value of 1/🦠 + 1/🦇?
Answers: a) Saturday b) 4.

by MathPlus April 17, 2021

MAGA

Short for “Make America Godly Again.” A mantra preached by a group of evangelical pastors, who had brainwashed diehard supporters of Trump, the “anointed one,” by proclaiming that there exists a parallel between Trump and Jesus, who have both come to deliver and save them—they need to stand up for Trump, who had selfishly used religious leaders as pawns and disinformation to incite an insurrection.

Evangelical leaders who risk losing (or have sold) their souls for grasping political power are preaching Trumpism or white supremacy under the flag of Christian nationalism—aren’t their preaching the political slogan MAGA, instead of the Magi, a stumbling block to millions of pre-believers of Christianity?

by MathPlus January 22, 2021

Who wants a Covaxin jab?

The dreaded vaccination question everyone in Africa and Asia is avoiding to answer even as India continues to donate millions of its home-grown, half-baked vaccine, which has received zero approval from WHO, to the developing world as part of its vaccine diplomacy—when the locals themselves have near-zero faith in their own vaccine.

In and outside India, the question to ask shouldn’t be “Who wants a Covaxin jab?” but rather “Who doesn’t want a Covaxin jab?”

by MathPlus March 21, 2021

Xi Thought

The capitalist-communist ideology Emperor Xi desires to indoctrinate on a billion-odd mainland Chinese citizens to “make China great again.”

Increasingly, more and more educated and middle-class citizens in China are reluctant to embrace “Xi Thought” in dictating their lives.

by MathPlus November 28, 2018

CRE8TIVE MATH

Exploring the beauty, ubiquity, and utility of the number 8 on earth—in disciplines like math, science, art, philosophy, religion, and literature—in heaven, and in hell.

Some cre8tive math questions are:

What is half of 8? 0, 3, or 4?
What color is the number 8?
How are eight and infinity related?
Why do spiders and scorpions have 8 legs?

Why are superstitious Chinese fond of the digit 8?
What is the spiritual significance of the number 8 in the Bible?
What are some common traits for people born with the digital root 8?

by MathPlus February 8, 2021

Vaccine Apartheid

When a government pretends not to make vaccination compulsory for everyone, yet has enacted rules that makes the unvaccinated unable to live a normal life—it is pure hypocrisy for making inoculation voluntary while making the unjabbed suffer for their “selfish” decision for not protecting themselves and others.

Guesstimate how many developed countries practise vaccine apartheid in one form or another, while claiming to respect the personal rights of their citizens to get jabbed or not.

by MathPlus November 28, 2021

Singapore

Math educators’ promised land that combines the best practices of math education from the East and the West—one such concoction is the “model method,” the problem-solving heuristic that has had global appeal, especially among homeschoolers in the US, in solving challenging word problems that would traditionally need formal algebra for their solutions.

Due to their stand on democracy and freedom of speech, a number of American educators have stood firm in rejecting Singapore math, although they acknowledged that the math curriculum of the “fine” city is a superior one compared to those used in a number of US states in helping to raise the quantitative literacy of the students.

by MathPlus October 3, 2021