When movies on math, or those that depict the odd behaviours of oft-mad mathematicians or idiot-savants, never fail to mention the number π and some of its magical properties.
With pi being part of pop culture, it’s not surprising to hear mathophobic actors in Hollywood complain about reel pi, as it reminds them of their bad experiences of school math, especially if they’d flunked the subject several times prior to making it big in the entertainment industry.
by Fasters May 30, 2022
When teachers and students who want to borrow books on the number π from public or school libraries are told that they had all been lent out, probably because the borrowers needed them for their project or presentation on Pi Day.
When the prime minister asked his secretary to help borrow some math titles on pi for his wife, he’s told that “pi is all booked”—all titles are due after March 14.
by Fasters May 29, 2022
When you use the free time while doing your business to practice memorizing the digits of the decimal number π.
As a criterion to joining his local Pi Club, which requires all members to be able to recite the first hundred digits of π, Paul is using his precious toilet pi moments to getting closer to being a pi member.
by Fasters January 12, 2022
When some morally bankrupt ultra-MAGA lawmakers are entertaining the idea to nominate their ex-Commander in Cheat as the next House Speaker (who doesn’t have to be an elected member of Congress) as days-long bitching, backstabbing, and infighting continue to plague the polarized GOP.
As his politically inept and serially corrupt yes-men and women can’t see eye to eye with the moderates, the Pinocchio-in-Chief is relishing at their far-fetched or idiotic proposal of “Trump as House Speaker.”
by Fasters October 21, 2023
Those who think they have the moral authority to take pictures of those who break the lockdown rules during the coronavirus crisis, then post them online to shame the culprits, and in some cases to drag them out of their homes to beat or kill them.
On religious or superstitious grounds, corona vigilantes around the world are taking the law into their own hands during the lockdowns to expose and shame the lawbreakers.
by Fasters April 27, 2020
When more Trumpublican parents and patriots, who believed the 2020 election was stolen from ex-President Trump, are pushing their lawmakers to fine or revoke the licences of state bookstores that sell Singapore math textbooks and workbooks, and also to ban these oft-brain-unfriendly but wallet-friendly titles in local schools, because these foreign K–12 math publications are allegedly detrimental to the mental health of local math-anxious or low self-esteem students.
The MAGA-fication of Singapore math has failed to prevent tens of thousands of homeschoolers in red states every year from ordering value-for-money math titles from the “fine” city for their children, who’re often bored or unchallenged by their dear inch-deep, mile-wide thick colorful math textbooks.
by Fasters September 15, 2022
At a KFC outlet in the “fine” city of Singapore, passers-by could spot the silhouette of a chicken and a π-like symbol meters apart. What are the chances that someone would interpret these two figures as 🐓 π?
by Fasters May 23, 2023