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A math question that is considered so easy to solve, or a math paper that turns out to be as easy as pie—a no-brainer even for those who are anxious or petrified about certain brain-unfriendly school or college math topics.
Most of the 2021 grades 1–5 math exam papers in certain US red states were a piece of pi for the a large proportion of students during the Covid-19 pandemic.
by Fasters January 23, 2022
Get the Piece of Pimug. When a gifted child’s Xmas wish for Santa Claus is to be rewarded with the last digit of the number π, which prompted the Donor-in-Chief to commit a “mathematical crime,” because he couldn’t fulfill the child’s “Christmaths” wish.
A few billion children worldwide would miss their Christmas gift this year, because Father Christmas had been charged for murder by pi—he’d first be spending the twelve days of Christmas behind bars before being flown to a North Korean or Siberian prison.
by Fasters April 18, 2022
Get the Murder by Pimug. When white Christian nationalists or ultra-MAGA patriots subscribe to the radical pedagogy that adopting (or adapting part of) the Singapore math curriculum would only adulterate theirs, because exposing local students to alien problem-solving strategies and heuristics under the guise of multicultural math or ethnomathematics would only give undue credit to foreign curriculum math specialists and publishers.
A number of white or “woke” curriculum censors are covertly working hand in hand with American textbook publishers to push for the wokenization of Singapore math, with both parties having a vested interest to ensure that dear inch-deep-mile-wide K–12 math textbooks rather than value-for-money foreign math titles inundate as many states and local schools as possible.
by Fasters May 9, 2023
Get the The Wokenization of Singapore Mathmug. When the irrational number π is paranoid or petrified that some radical elements of the mathematical brethren might conspire together to promote other mathematical constants like e and 𝛷 in gracing the pages of reputable math journals on a regular basis.
A few notable constants have discreetly approached some Fields medalists (the equivalent of Nobel Prize winners in mathematics) in their dreams by revealing to them some of their sexy numerical and geometric secrets after hearing leaked news of “what’s pi thinking?”
by Fasters August 13, 2022
Get the What’s Pi Thinking?mug. When the three parts that make up the number π decide to perform a Michael Jackson’s moonwalk in front of a geeky audience.
With three permissible orientations of the legs (/, |, \), show that there are at most six possible movements of the pi dance.
by Fasters June 25, 2022
Get the Pi Dancemug. The solution to the equation a + b = c, where a, b, and c are consecutive integers; or where b = a + 1 and c = a + 2.
If 1 + 2 = 3 and 4 + 5 + 6 = 7 + 8 are the first two terms of a sequence of equations, what is the sum of the third equation in the pattern?
by Fasters May 7, 2022
Get the 1 + 2 = 3mug. The day when you wake up and are 100% free from any bondages of a boss, because you are now getting paid without having to work—you have graduated from a tired-and-broke entrepreneur (who used to slave for sixty to eighty hours a week for yourself to avoid working forty hours a week for someone else) to a passivepreneur.
From Day Zero, you no longer need an alarm clock as you could sleep through until you feel like waking up to have your breakfast at any time of the day.
by Fasters January 28, 2023
Get the Day Zeromug.