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Out-of-print math titles whose covers, contents, or creators the present generation could still remember, because when they were students, teachers, or parents, these wallet-friendly, brain-unfriendly books had positively impacted their mathematical learning or teaching, which were unsurprisingly bestsellers of their day.
Singapore’s zombie math titles of yesteryear like Fabian Ng’s “Process Skills in Problem Solving,” Dr Y H Leong’s “Challenging Problems in Mathematics,” and K C Yan’s “Mathematical Quickies & Trickies” had not only differentiated themselves from the sea of canned drill-and-kill titles, but they have since become an integral part of the local math education culture.
by Fasters February 5, 2022
Get the Zombie Math Titles mug.Doing math from a cat’s standpoint, or with the least effort. When a creative but lazy person is always on the lookout for a shortcut or hack to solve a math problem, so that they could have more time for leisure or rest.
Street-smart people tend to use Garfield math strategies to deal with their everyday quantitative challenges, compared to their exam-smart counterparts who prefer a more conventional or routine approach.
by Fasters February 6, 2022
Get the Garfield Math mug.When non-fungible token (NFT) creators produce digital goods that leverage on the number π—mathematics’s most famous or beloved constant—to target millions of math educators and geeks worldwide, who value true ownership, trust, and transparency of digital assets—from π e-cards and jokes to newly coined π-related words and phrases to π (temporary) tattoos and websites.
Crypto investors, some of whom had even flunked their school math, are eager to own a piece of “mathematical immortality” via pi NFTs.
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Get the Pi NFTs mug.The name a math geek, whose pet name is “Spider-man,” gave to his tarantula pet, who loves to show his illegally acquired exotic possession wherever he goes to impress and frighten his audience.
by Fasters February 10, 2022
Get the Pi mug.When the digits of the number π used in a given calculation to a certain degree of accuracy to produce a product need to be checked and approved by certified Islamist or Mohammedan educators before it could be sold to green customers.
The Taliban warn green publishers that only math titles that have the “halal pi” stamp on them could be used in local universities.
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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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On a surprise visit to Winning Math Publishing, the FBI found proof of toilet math taking place upon their arrival to their premises.
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