Definitions by Fasters
Singapore Mask Educators
Someone who fakes their knowhow of Singapore’s bar model method and stack model method—two problem-solving visualization strategies commonly used by local teachers and tutors—often oblivious that their audience could smell their half-baked knowledge in effectively applying these “draw a model” techniques to solve word problems.
Most school teachers and textbook writers could easily detect those local and foreign Singapore mask educators in academia, who often serve as supervisors for trainee math teachers.
Singapore Mask Educators by Fasters December 23, 2021
Santa’s Funeral
When someone dies on Christmas Eve and their funeral is a Christmas party for relatives and friends to recount and reminisce about the deceased’s selfless contributions and achievements to humanity on this side of eternity.
At Santa’s funeral, the children and grandchildren are secretly contemplating what the old man’s will has allocated for them.
Santa’s Funeral by Fasters December 22, 2021
What’s the Temperature of Pi?
A synesthetic question that would best be posed to idiot savants, whose varying answers would probably be based on their degree of autism, or to some math nerds suffering from schizophrenia.
Some math geeks turned psychologists think that they too could figure out the answer to “What’s the temperature of pi?” without being afflicted with any mental disorders.
What’s the Temperature of Pi? by Fasters December 19, 2021
Is Pi Male or Female?
When the beautiful numerical or geometric properties of the number π lures far more men than women, who long to get intimate with mathematics’s most famous constant—when rational male figures get pretty excited, with some even experiencing occasional ahas, whenever the irrational and sexy π reveals more of her hidden properties.
The masculine and feminine subtle behaviors exhibited by the number π makes math educators and recreational mathematicians quietly ask: “Is pi male or female?”
Is Pi Male or Female? by Fasters December 19, 2021
Pi Inequality
When the number π feels marginalized in some puritan or theocratic quarters as it is allowed only to express itself to one or two decimal places, or to two or three significant figures, while such a numerical oppression is quasi-inexistent in most countries in the West.
Pi Inequality by Fasters December 15, 2021
3.14
The name of a company incorporated in Singapore—which was registered on Pi Day by three math geeks, one green billionaire, and four family members-turned-financial angels—that aims at getting attention from those who are curious to know the nature of the business.
Xmas Pi
When the number π has unprovenly been using dreams for centuries to hint at number theorists and numerologists that besides some Old Testament books in the Bible, the birth of Christ is also revealed via its digits, if only they know how or where to look for them—had they sought the Holy Spirit, the Third Person in the Trinity, for direction, they would have received the revelation instead of struggling with their own intellect.