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Short for “Trumpkin.” The nickname given to the Liar-in-Chief on Halloween, who is orange on the outside and hollow on the inside, which many voters want to throw out on November 3.
A 🤥🎃 question for students on Halloween is: “Given that 🤥 + 🎃 = 56 and 🤥 × 🎃 = 14, what is 1/🤥 + 1/🎃?” Answer: 4.
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Get the 🤥🎃 mug.A school subject taught by oft-dull teachers who use boring textbooks, and dreaded by millions of kids and their loved ones, which would otherwise have provided students a good training ground in learning how to face the unknowns, especially if they refused to trade their time for money later in life.
Algebra is too important to be left in the hands of school teachers and publishers—students need to take charge of their algebraic life unless they don’t mind becoming lifelong employees slaving for others.
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Algebra helps students to move from the particular to the general, as they learn to speak the language of science.
by Fasters June 18, 2022
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A middle school teacher in Xinjiang was sent to a reeducation camp for two years after he’s found guilty of setting some sheep-and-wolves math questions, one of which is the following: “In a village, a pack of eight wolves have encircled a pen that encloses a hundred and ten sheep. Guesstimate how many sheep could lose their lives before the shepherd and his two assistants arrived on the scene to rescue his flock.”
by Fasters September 10, 2022
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It’s as if traditional Singapore math questions aren’t tough enough for students and their kiasu parents, but now with tuition or enrichment centers terrorizing their students with tiger math toughies in the name of superstition, the Year of the Tiger looks like another mathematical nightmare to those who are already suffering from math anxiety.
by Fasters January 22, 2022
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Guesstimate how many millions of people were spared mental or psychological breakdown thanks to Covid-♟ during the weeks-long Covid-19 lockdown.
by Fasters October 25, 2020
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Pi pyramidologists restrict their attention to the Great Pyramid but ignore other Egyptian pyramids—if the heights and base dimensions of 22 true pyramids were used to calculate π, the value ranges from 2.58 to 4.42.
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