Definitions by Covido
Trump Anonymous
When pro-Trump patriots who became inmates in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection would meet up upon their release at undisclosed venues to support each other emotionally, with some unable to come to terms with the painful truth that the 2016 presidential election was not stolen from the Liar-in-Chief.
A number of sponsored Trump Anonymous groups have sprung up in red states as dozens of hardcore inmates are waiting to be released in coming months.
Trump Anonymous by Covido October 10, 2022
Math Homework Crackdown
When the Communist Party of China (CCP) is toying with the idea of limiting the number of hours students could spend on their school math homework every day, much to the relief of millions of math-anxious students and their parents, so that the time could be better spent on non-academic pursuits, or on familiarizing themselves with Xi’s socialist writings.
Unlike the CCP’s dreaded crackdown of its domestic gaming industry, such as prohibiting minors from playing video games Monday through Thursday and limiting their play to one hour on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, its rumored math homework crackdown is being anticipated by both students and parents.
Math Homework Crackdown by Covido August 29, 2022
Out-of-Bounds Calculus
Unexpected or surprising examples, interesting problems, and clever proofs on calculus that are often counterintuitive or paradoxical—the oddities that most math students are seldom exposed to during their calculus lessons.
Be it a continuous function whose graph possesses a tangent at no point, or a continuous function that has infinitely many maxima and minima on a finite interval, or a shape that has finite area but infinite perimeter, these examples of out-of-bounds calculus seldom fail to trigger an aha! reaction among math geeks.
Out-of-Bounds Calculus by Covido August 24, 2022
Math 4 Life
When quantitative reasoning or mathematical thinking, which makes use of numbers and other mathematically based ideas to reason our way through the kinds of problems that confront us every day, becomes a way of life or second nature to us.
Math 4 Life is quite different from oft-impractical school math, but it’s as just as, or sometimes more, important.
Math 4 Life by Covido August 24, 2022
Wealth Inequality
When a CEO earns more than 300 times in a day what many of their workers earn in a year, or when the top 0.1% owns as much as the bottom 90% of the population.
The immoral wealth inequality is proof of pure hypocrisy by billionaires and CEOs, who never fail to point out that they’ll give away most of the wealth after their last heartbeat.
Wealth Inequality by Covido August 24, 2022
1 China
When millions from the Chinese diaspora run the risk of being blacklisted and barred from entering China, Hong Kong, and Macau, because they refuse to publicly acknowledge or recognize that there is only one China in the world, and not two China’s—an autocratic China and a democratic Republic of China (or Taiwan).
Pro-Taipei mathematicians and math educators living in Asia, who reject the “1 China” worldview, risk a higher chance of being kidnapped by Chinese “special forces” and sent to reeducation camps in Xinjiang.
Cybersix
When millions of numerically challenged netizens apparently or unexplainably want to read more about the properties of the number six than those of other one-digit whole numbers much to the surprise of mathematicians, psychologists, and even theologians.
Why cybersix attracts so much interest even among math-anxious folks? Are they curious to know more about the six days of creation, as described in the Bible? Do they want to read up about the beautiful properties of the perfect number six? Or, could it be something else that isn’t so obvious to most logical or puritan minds?