Definitions by Fasters
Pi Made Me Do It
When the world’s most popular mathematical constant lured me to coin or christen no fewer than 3.14 × 10² words and phrases about her as part of a lifelong recreational math project to preach the mathematical gospel to an oft-math-anxious or semi-innumerate global community.
The “Pi Made Me Do It” sounds like a marketing slogan in the math or math education business, but its global positive impact among math educators has so far been nothing short of a miracle.
Pi Made Me Do It by Fasters May 29, 2023
Creepily Pi-ed
When a math-anxious or mathophobic person’s stress level skyrockets at the sight or sound of the number π, or on spotting expressions or formulas that contain the irrational number—common symptoms are faster heartbeat, sweaty palms, temporary mental blackouts, and in some cases a seconds-long stroke.
Don, who’s creepily pi-ed after watching a science fiction horror movie, was given three days leave by his family psychiatrist to recover from his post-pi traumatic experience.
Creepily Pi-ed by Fasters May 28, 2023
Piroscope
The art of predicting someone’s personality based on the number of digits of the number π they remember or have painfully committed to memory, or on a certain fraction or expression they use to approximate the irrational number.
Mathematical Wokeism
When ultra-MAGA Trumpublicans or white Christian nationalists are hell-bent to censor any math educator or publisher who dares to expose the whitewashing of math or math education throughout history, because allowing them to right any past mathematical wrongs or injustices committed by colonialists or imperialists would lay bare their selfish attempts to brainwash millions of children that the evolution of mathematical ideas is a white people’s contribution.
White supremacist or extremist math educators label mathematicians and math educators, who question the distorted or fake view of the history of mathematics, or who lecture about mathematical wokeism, as “mathematically toxic”—they’d be deprived of education funding for discussing that math is racist, or for condemning centuries-long white male privilege in academia.
Mathematical Wokeism by Fasters May 26, 2023
As Deadly as Pi
When Pi, the life-threatening Covid-19 variant of concern that came after the variant Omicron, was marginalized by WHO, as it fears that the politically incorrect or mathematically blasphemous label might unprovenly trigger a global outcry or protest among millions of math educators for whatever unspoken or irrational reasons.
From 2020–2023, many different types of Covid-19 variants were floating freely on the planet, but none was as deadly as Pi.
As Deadly as Pi by Fasters May 23, 2023
Anti-Pi Day
A hands-on educational event for math-anxious students and adults that would offer them some fun non-symbolic things to do on Pi Day—a mathematical equivalent of an anti-Valentine’s Day for singles.
To empathize with tens of thousands of kids who feel left out or alienated on Pi Day, a Singapore NGO is organizing a “Anti-Pi Day” concert to boost their low self-esteem in math.
Anti-Pi Day by Fasters May 22, 2023