Definitions by Covido
Paint-by-Numbers Math
The way 99.99% students worldwide are taught math in school, with everyone painting the same way, and the few who refuse to conform are ridiculed or marginalized—being an odd in a sea of evens often comes with a stigmatizing price tag or a negative label.
Those who refuse to see “math as problem-solving” (read as “math as rote-learning”) in a first class economy should be prepared to be sacrificed as a dead chicken to scare the monkeys—the paint-by-numbers math strategy is good enough for most Asian high-GDP countries to be ranked among the top ten in international comparative studies like PISA and TIMSS, and to win a few dozen medals at math contests and competitions.
Paint-by-Numbers Math by Covido July 11, 2022
Mathematical Grawlix
A string of typographical and mathematical symbols, such as $#√(-1)+ and ∫eˣ = f(uⁿ), used in place of an obscenity, especially among geeks on social media.
Which mathematical grawlix would you dare sending to your boss after you’ve submitted your resignation letter?
Mathematical Grawlix by Covido May 31, 2022
Pi Futurist
A math professor who advises both undergraduate and postgraduate students which area of research on the number π they should embark on in order to increase their chances of getting published in reputable math publications, with minimum frustration and pain.
Dictator Kim is asking comrade Trump whether he’d recommend any ex-lecturer from his now-defunct Trump University, who might be keen to work as a pi futurist for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology on a three-year contract, with high prospects of securing tenure if local researchers’ submissions grace the pages of math periodicals and journals.
Pi Futurist by Covido May 1, 2022
No Algebra for Florida
A bill proposed by hardcore Trumpublican or white supremacist Floridians who want to ban the “Algebra for all” reform programme, because they unspokenly reasoned that if more non-white high-school and college students were given the opportunity to study algebra, it would make it harder for symbols-allergic white natives to secure decent jobs upon graduation.
To prevent algebra from becoming a stumbling block, which would limit millions of white blue-collar workers’ career opportunities, Trump Institute of Education, which is a 30-minute drive from Mar-a-Lago, would make algebra an optional course module for its new students—they bigly support the “No Algebra for Florida” bill in the name of “mathematical equality” for all races.
No Algebra for Florida by Covido April 28, 2022
The Covidization of Singapore Math
When math writers or publishers in Singapore withheld or delayed publishing any new titles during the lockdown, because local bookstores were considered non-essential businesses, and in the living-with-Covid new normal, new foreign titles are being axed for being too dear to be shipped overseas due to rising freight costs and recurring global supply chain disruptions.
No one knows whether the publication of foreign editions of Singapore math textbooks is heading towards a subset industry or not as a result of the covidization of Singapore math.
The Covidization of Singapore Math by Covido April 26, 2022
Mask
A psychological confidence marker that gives vaccinated or boosted people the illusion that they are fully protected from the coronavirus—a symbol of perceived social responsibility to pacify politicians that they could be counted on in containing the pandemic.
With millions of people wearing face masks of varying quality, most of which offering near-zero protection against Covid-19 and its variants, the main beneficiaries are the mask manufacturers and the distributors.
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.
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.
Politicians’ Epitaphs by Covido April 23, 2022