Definitions by Fasters

Pisphere 

The wealth of hidden information and earthly or spiritual wisdom that could be mined or divined from the infinite digits of the irrational and transcendental number π.

Thanks to analytics or big data, the birthdays of the nearly eight billion people on the planet and their mobile numbers—including their “good or bad” days—can all be digitally or numerologically extracted from the pisphere.

Pisphere by Fasters May 4, 2022

Mathointed 

Symbol-minded; enviably mathematical; or abstractly blessed—a happy condition produced by God’s favor on a sinner rather than because they were born or blessed with the “math gene,” which for 99.99% of mathematicians and math educators worldwide is seldom accompanied by academic awards or financial rewards.

If you’re a K–12 math tutor, teacher, editor, or writer, consider yourself already mathointed; or doubly blessed if you’re a polytechnic or university math lecturer or consultant—it’s not so much what you’ve been gifted with, but what you do with it to benefit or bless others.

Mathointed by Fasters May 3, 2022

1 = 2 

The equation of choice among math paradoxers and recreational mathematicians, who unspokenly derive much satisfaction in exposing students’ fallacious or illogical reasoning that leads to the contradictory result.

Be it due to division by zero or squaring (or square rooting) both sides of an equation, few students wouldn’t want to know why “1 = 2” is logically plausible.

1 = 2 by Fasters May 3, 2022

Woke Statistics 

When math authors use statistical diagrams like bar charts and pie charts to depict politically incorrect information that directly or indirectly point to centuries-long systemic white racism or supremacism in the nation, which has deprived millions of nonwhites of the educational and career opportunities their white counterparts were afforded with for a few generations.

Recently, a number of red states in the United States have rejected a few dozen math textbooks that allegedly contain woke statistics questions aimed at indoctrinating grades 1–5 students.

Woke Statistics by Fasters May 2, 2022

Twitter+ 

The paid Musk version of Twitter, where millions of users could access their synchronized drafts across different devices, besides amending their longer tweets with the edit button.

What are the chances that Twitter+ might suffer the same fate as Google+?

Twitter+ by Fasters May 2, 2022

Woke Geometry 

When math authors or publishers deliberately or inadvertently use religious, satanic, or New Age symbols, icons, or logos, made up of geometric shapes, in their books to bewitch schoolchildren into the occultic or demonic world.

A grade two Chinese title was being recalled because it arguably contains a “woke geometry” item—the publisher has since apologized to its readers for depicting a bloody-looking pentagram, whereby kids are required to identify all geometric shapes that make up the “satanic symbol.”

Woke Geometry by Fasters May 1, 2022

Mathematical Insurrection 

When censors from a Department of Education in a state rejected submitted math textbooks from major publishers because their “woke” authors had allegedly tried to indoctrinate children with critical race theory, foreign problem-solving strategies, and multicultural math topics, when in actual fact these math titles contain real-life problems that would help hone students’ problem-solving skills, compared to artificially canned questions of traditional publishers with whom they have a vested interest in—when politics and profits triumph over pedagogy and proficiency.

Last week, with the blessing of their state governor, diehard math educators in Florida carried out a mathematical insurrection against a number of educational publishers for subtly including Common Core pedagogies on top of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) elements in their textbooks.

Mathematical Insurrection by Fasters April 25, 2022