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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.
by Fasters April 25, 2022
Get the Mathematical Insurrectionmug. Short for “Always Stop And Pray”—when you need to be as smart or sharp as possible in tackling urgent and important matters, by relying on the Holy Spirit (the Third Person in the Trinity) for wisdom and direction for your solution.
The moment I realize that ASAP needn’t always stand for “As Soon As Possible,” I quickly submitted this long-overdue definition for publication.
by Fasters May 14, 2022
Get the ASAPmug. When a formula looks more complex than it is because it contains the constant π, whose sight or sound often frightens those who suffer from math anxiety.
Guesstimate how many mature students worldwide are reluctant to sign up for short math or statistics courses to upgrade themselves, because they are masked by pi.
by Fasters January 15, 2022
Get the Masked by Pimug. 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
Get the Trump Monoxidemug. When ultra-MAGA Trumpublicans or white Christian nationalists are hell-bent to censor any math educator or publisher who dares to expose the whitewashing of math or math education throughout history, because allowing them to right any past mathematical wrongs or injustices committed by colonialists or imperialists would lay bare their selfish attempts to brainwash millions of children that the evolution of mathematical ideas is a white people’s contribution.
White supremacist or extremist math educators label mathematicians and math educators, who question the distorted or fake view of the history of mathematics, or who lecture about mathematical wokeism, as “mathematically toxic”—they’d be deprived of education funding for discussing that math is racist, or for condemning centuries-long white male privilege in academia.
by Fasters May 26, 2023
Get the Mathematical Wokeismmug. A now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange that was helping people to buy and sell crypto assets, but was operating like a Ponzi scheme with the help and promotion of celebrities and influencers, or like an unregulated bank or casino favored by pseudo-geeky speculators.
by Fasters November 26, 2022
Get the FTXmug. When the number π is so proactive and paranoid in marketing herself so that she would constantly remain in the mathematical consciousness of mathematicians and math educators, while making herself conspicuous in the eyes of the lay public to be part of popular culture.
To avoid being disrupted or eclipsed by other mathematical constants, all vying to get the attention of the mathematical brethren, it’s not surprising to witness pi on fire 24/7/365.
by Fasters September 18, 2022
Get the Pi on Firemug.