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The X factor that would make math geeks or symbol-minded folks stand out in a crowd—when they are seen as an odd in a sea of evens.
Most math educators worldwide dread their oft-underpaid or overworked or unfulfilled day job, because few of them have learned to recognize or leverage on their π factor to become a candidate of choice among the unicorns or decacorns.
by Fasters June 3, 2023
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Even in low-corruption Singapore, it’s an open secret that Robinhood publishers continue to thrive, because most authors who’ve a sixth sense of being shortchanged couldn’t afford the legal means to suing them for their decades-long shady business practices.
by Fasters October 21, 2022
Get the Robinhood Publishers mug.A geekspeak term for “50% success”—indirectly referring to the angle measure of a semicircle being π radians or 180 degrees.
For simple-minded persons, “π success” would sound like a cool way to mean “3.14% success,” but not so for symbol-minded Martians.
by Fasters January 28, 2023
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Although “Pi Sutra” is filled with juicy pi factoids, reveals some creative ways of making the irrational number exciting even to math-anxious folks, and discuses some easy-to-understand cool theorems on mathematicians’ constant of choice, however, some ultra-MAGA parents have asked their governors to ban the recreational math book in school libraries, because it’s the potential to pervert the minds of teenagers.
by Fasters September 27, 2022
Get the Pi Sutra mug.Also known as “Singapore Math in the Metaverse.” When thanks to Web 3.0 technology, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and non-fungible tokens (NFTs)—backed by blockchain technology to ensure authenticity and ownership—become common currency or key connecting points to the metaverse among math educators and geeky investors.
While Singapore Math 3.0 is still in its diapers, or is still wet so we can’t see its true colors, mathepreneurs can’t afford to be spectators that they miss out on the opportunities and experiences and new revenue streams offered by the new digital Wild West economy.
by Fasters November 7, 2022
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by Fasters March 9, 2023
Get the Busy mug.When Pi, the life-threatening Covid-19 variant of concern that came after the variant Omicron, was marginalized by WHO, as it fears that the politically incorrect or mathematically blasphemous label might unprovenly trigger a global outcry or protest among millions of math educators for whatever unspoken or irrational reasons.
From 2020–2023, many different types of Covid-19 variants were floating freely on the planet, but none was as deadly as Pi.
by Fasters May 23, 2023
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