Fasters's definitions

Pi Check

When the number π signs checks and creditors decide not to cash them because they have gotten her signature on—when pi’s personality or identity is more valuable than the amount owned.

The pi check shows that a number of people would go for value rather than money, because money doesn’t calculate value, and value is often based on the wider contribution to culture or society.

by Fasters August 25, 2022

Covid-🎲

When bookmakers worldwide are ever changing the odds that President Trump would be re-elected, based on the good and bad news about him and his morally bankrupt administration, which make the headlines every day.

Thanks to Covid-🎲, with billions of bucks changing hands, tens of millionaires (and thousands of zeronaires) are expected to emerge come November 3.

by Fasters September 18, 2020

Goblin Math

A term that gained currency during the pandemic, especially after repeated lockdowns and potential mental breakdowns, to describe the type of negative, irrational, selfish, or self-defeating behavior that plagued many math educators worldwide, because they were tired of conforming to the social or unreasonable expectations of the authorities, or had little respect for vampires or hypocrites with a say in their pay.

Be it adhering to lockdown rules, working from home, or attending to parents’ complaints, demands, and threats, math teachers and tutors had descended into a goblin math state, when they’re waiting to be fired if they didn’t call it quit themselves.

by Fasters December 5, 2022

Coronavirus Law

If you suspect you have contracted the coronavirus, you are right—it is like Murphy’s Law applied to the “foreign virus,” especially if you are a diehard Trump loyalist.

A corollary to the Coronavirus Law is: “If you are Covid-19-infected, you will also infect others.”

by Fasters May 6, 2020

Numerical Vanity

When superstitious (or arguably vain) people would dearly bid for items like car plates, phone numbers, and house units that display “auspicious” or “lucky” numbers, or a string of “patternful” digits.

Guesstimate how many million bucks the digital or numerical vanity business is worth every year in Asia and the Middle East.

by Fasters February 17, 2023

Pi Dance

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

The Wokenization of Singapore Math

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