HOT (higher-order thinking) math questions that give you an intellectual kick to the point that they could temporarily numb your mind before you experience an aha! in solving them—mala is a spicy and numbing seasoning made from Sichuan peppercorn and chilli.
Geeks in Singapore who are attending enrichment math programmes from premium tuition centers have been begging their coaches for more mala math quickies and trickies and toughies to satisfy their mathematical cravings.
by Fasters December 30, 2021
What a layperson would call a 19-sided polygon or 19-gon rather than an enneadecagon or enneakaidecagon.
A corona math question for geeks: “Show that the interior angle in a regular covidagon is 161¹/₁₉°.”
by Fasters September 18, 2020
The disease of the 21st century that causes stress, insomnia, and cancer; or the appearance of being so to remain on the payroll.
by Fasters March 10, 2023
Toxic or blasphemous talks or rumors about the Trumps and their diehard morally bankrupt donors that residents living in the vicinity of Mar-a-Lago are sick of hearing every other day, which have negatively impacted their property prices or businesses in their once-sunshine state.
Floridian authorities are clueless how to remove all trump monoxide that is lingering over their state following scores of complaints from even angry patriots-neighbors and property agents, who’ve threatened to stage days-long protests outside the FBI-searched resort if the Hoarder in Chief refused to move out.
by Fasters June 22, 2023
Someone who fakes their knowhow of Singapore’s bar model method and stack model method—two problem-solving visualization strategies commonly used by local teachers and tutors—often oblivious that their audience could smell their half-baked knowledge in effectively applying these “draw a model” techniques to solve word problems.
Most school teachers and textbook writers could easily detect those local and foreign Singapore mask educators in academia, who often serve as supervisors for trainee math teachers.
by Fasters December 23, 2021
Also known as “Fake Math.” Any math courses or programs promoted by some unscrupulous individuals or shady institutions that promise to deliver pie-in-the-sky results to lure the gullibles or suckers, who are excited by form rather than substance.
Although tens of thousands of blue-collar workers and suburban evangelicals have been taken advantage of by MAGA math providers and politicians, millions of white parents and patriots in red states have been bought into the lie that their children are being indoctrinated by “woke math” publishers and multicultural math educators.
by Fasters September 20, 2022
When a very small percentage of white privileged parents in some red states want public schools to fine or fire math and science teachers who preach that the number π is irrational; instead, they want them to teach that pi’s “true” value is three, citing 1 Kings 7:23 and 2 Chronicles 4:2 in the Bible as “proof” for their claim.
Under the banner of "parents' rights," a small aggressive group of alt-right Trumpublicans and “fine” patriots expect their oft-morally bankrupt senator to push for woke pi in all schools statewide.
by Fasters February 26, 2022