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Bar Modeling Made Ridiculously Simple

When a math educator is hell-bent to depicting an idiot-proof version of Singapore’s bar model method as a non-algebraic solution to a word problem to impress upon teachers and writers that most of their clumsily or amateurishly constructed bar models often confuse rather than enlighten their green audiences.

Singapore math writers ought to mindfully and elegantly incorporate bar modeling in their solutions to brain-unfriendly math questions if they are dead serious in marketing the intuitive problem-solving visualization strategy to skeptical math teachers overseas—they need to creatively evangelize the “bar modeling made ridiculously simple” gospel far and wide to win over new converts.

by Covido February 20, 2022

Covid-🇲🇬

When Madagascar put Africa on the corona map after it claimed to have concocted Covid-Organics, the miracle tonic that can cure the coronavirus, which the WHO refused to recommend unless it has been subject to rigorous testing to prove its effectiveness.

When one of the poorest African countries with a broken health system, which is known for its rich flora and fauna, boldly promoted its Covid-🇲🇬 cure, it’s not surprising that it attracted much laughter and ridicule from the scientific community and the West.

by Covido November 29, 2020

BT & AT

Short for “Before Trump” and “After Trump.” The four chaotic or dreadful years (2016–2020) a corrupt and inept fake president spent at the White House, whose actions and inactions made him a laughingstock of the world, not forgetting his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, which led to an obscene number of preventable infections and deaths.

A decade or a quarter century from now, Americans would still remember the politically tumultuous 2016–2020 period as the BT & AT years, when the country lost its moral footing on the global stage, thanks to the Pharisee-in-Chief or Pinocchio-in-Chief.

by Covido November 3, 2020

Piriosity

When someone is radically curious about the number π, hoping to experience some aha’s once in a while, when she reveals some juicy little theorems or lemmas about her.

The potential extinction of piriosity among math educators in MAGA states is an emergency, which is compounded by politicians’ own agenda to ban “woke math”
curriculums aimed at pacifying voters who want a watered-down version of Common Core Math or Singapore Math.

by Covido November 19, 2022

Politicians’ Epitaphs

The unspoken words invisibly inscribed on the tombstones of famous or notorious political leaders, whose earthly decisions and actions (or inactions) have positively or negatively impacted millions of people when they were the head of state (or even after they had relinquished power).

A leaked document entitled “Politicians’ Epitaphs” from the secret department of a NATO member state has the following printed:

Here lies Vladimir V. Putin with promises of peace—waiting to be canonized by the Orthodox Church.

Here lies Donald J. Trump with no more lies—hoping to be a future Dalai Lama or Pope.

Here lies Kim Jong-un, on transit to join his dad and grandad—in Hades.

Here lies Robert G. Mugabe on reclaimed white land—still in purgatory.

Here lies Harry Lee Kuan Yew—as long as the whites rule the “fine” city.

by Covido April 23, 2022

Covid-🚬

When smoking opens up the arteries, which could allegedly help to better fight the viruses in the body, with tobacco companies excited to fund any research that shows that nicotine in controlled amounts is a potential cure to the coronavirus.

Chain smokers are thrilled to hear that Covid-🚬 is their friend rather than their foe in fighting Covid-19.

by Covido December 25, 2020

Covid-🧬👁

When a few countries with the capability of developing a Covid-19 vaccine are getting their hackers to spy on each other’s research development of the virus so that they could become the first nation to launch it.

The notorious Covid-🧬👁 perpetrators are Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, with the US and a few others pretending not to be involved in the dirty spying business.

by Covido November 14, 2020