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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.
Bar Modeling Made Ridiculously Simple by Covido February 20, 2022
Vaccine Intimacy
The hypothesis that the gender of the offspring of a couple is influenced not only by the jab or booster each party took, but also by the order in which the shots were taken.
A leaked out document from a Chinese lab that is investigating whether vaccine intimacy is pure nonsense or not reveals these alleged possibilities:
Pfizer + Moderna: Boy
Moderna + Pfizer: Girl
Sinovac + Pfizer: Twins
Sputnik + Sinovac + Sinopharm: Unknown
Pfizer + Moderna: Boy
Moderna + Pfizer: Girl
Sinovac + Pfizer: Twins
Sputnik + Sinovac + Sinopharm: Unknown
Vaccine Intimacy by Covido February 12, 2022
A picture is worth 280 characters.
A Liar-in-Chief’s immoral equivalent of “A picture is worth a thousand words.” When a caustic, narcissistic, racist, supremacist, or xenophobic tweet has the same negative or nauseating effect as a fake or frightening GIF.
In TrumpWorld, or among an obscene number of morally corrupt Trumpublican lawmakers, a picture is worth 280 characters.
A picture is worth 280 characters. by Covido February 8, 2022
Trump Math
Any math concept, formula, or theorem that can’t be simplistically or half-accurately be explained in a tweet, or using 280 characters, is likely to be too complex or confusing to the millions of pro-Trump blue-collar or MAGA workers and alt-right “fine patriots.”
If you can’t explain any Trump math to an oft-morally bankrupt and mathematically challenged Trumpublican, QAnonist, or statistical evangelical, you probably don’t understand it yourself.
Trump Math by Covido February 7, 2022
Singapore Math
When math-smart yes-members of Parliament and cabinet ministers in Singapore—who are versed with all the big numbers of their million-dollar salaries and bonuses and the nation’s trillion-dollar economy—appear quasi-clueless on how to deal with the alphas, betas, and deltas, which has resulted in a daily unhealthy number of corona infections in recent weeks—could these half-street-smart politicians outwit these Greek viruses and variants?
Although the government has provided a safe haven for thousands of tax fugitives from both rich and rogue nations, and created a materialistic milieu that motivates both locals and aliens to deify the money god, however, Singapore math ministers’ social living-with-Covid experiment looks like they’re indulging in some trial-and-error political calculus with the lives and livelihoods of the people.
Singapore Math by Covido February 5, 2022
Pre-Heaven Vaccination
When the number of times centenarians are encouraged to get vaccinated and boosted within a certain time frame is based on the sum of the digits of their age (not exceeding half a dozen jabs) in order to prolong their longevity on this side of eternity—for instance, a 102-year-old person would be jabbed at least three times, compared to a 103-year-old folk who would be shot no less than four times.
A nursing home has three senior residents aged 102, 103, and 104, respectively. Based on pre-heaven vaccination guidelines, what is the least number of shots the trio are expected to receive in due course?
Pre-Heaven Vaccination by Covido February 4, 2022
Singapore
The economic-and-political model country for rogue political leaders or dictators in developing countries, with capitalist leanings, who long to enrich themselves and their cronies—minimum political freedom for the electors and maximum financial gain for the elected.
A number of African and Asian nations are keen to emulate Singapore’s model of governance in helping their oft-undisciplined or unmotivated population out of poverty, by reducing red tape to promote business entrepreneurship and meting out heavy penalties for lawbreakers—and bankrupting or/and jailing those who try to “pollute the minds” of an oft-apathetic or petrified electorate.