When you need to simplistically explain an arguably simple math concept to a group of kindergarteners, most of whom probably have an IQ of a parrot or less, although their parents think that the intelligence of their little ones is closer to that of a dolphin.
Some big bird math topics kids at a premium enrichment math center were recently exposed to were: “as easy as ⍺, β, 𝛾” and “COVID-1–2–3.”
by MathPlus November 10, 2021
When citizens of the world remind themselves every January 6 to lend zero support to white racism and supremacism, and to have zero tolerance for bigotry and xenophobia—in reference to the date when Donald J. Trump incited his diehard supporters-turned-terrorists to storm the US Capitol as a desperate attempt to illegally prolong his stay at the White House.
Guesstimate how many people worldwide are expected to denounce white terrorism on Trumpism Prevention Day in 2022.
by MathPlus March 24, 2021
Someone who is more likely to apply Singapore’s bar model method rather than use algebra to solve a word problem—when a “look-see” proof to an elementary math nonroutine question is conceptually richer or more intuitive than mindlessly juggling some symbols and numbers to find the answer.
With Singapore math being the foreign math curriculum of choice among many homeschoolers, teachers, and tutors, guesstimate the number of bar modelists in the United States in the last two decades.
by MathPlus November 17, 2021
When you feel paranoiac of catching the coronavirus from someone who coughs, talks loudly on their smartphone, or walks around without a face mask in public squares.
Be it on a train, in a supermarket, or at a hawker center, it’d not be surprising that a large proportion of people suffer from a mild form of coronanoia.
by MathPlus February 14, 2021
When a brain-unfriendly, tricky, or ill-posed oft-elementary math question in a national exam is shared rapidly and widely on the internet, because an obscene number of unhappy students and their clueless parents could not solve it, who blamed the problem poser of the “unfair” question for causing them trauma, nightmare, pain, or suffering, with some even entertaining suicidal thoughts.
Singapore’s high-stakes Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE)—grade six—exam is notorious for setting viral math questions almost every other year—the PSLE math paper via its higher order thinking skills (HOTS) questions acts as a social filter to filter out the nerds from the herd.
by MathPlus October 21, 2021
When autistic folks and idiot savants claim that hours-long meditation on the seemingly random or sacred digits of the number π puts them in some kind of trance, which allows their mind’s eye to see sexy numerical patterns or relationships, or to visualize kaleidoscopic geometric shapes in higher dimensions.
Number theorists obsessed with the properties of π love to indulge themselves in hypnotic pi activities, hoping to experience a few aha! moments, which could help them secure early tenure thanks to some breakthrough results or elegant proofs on pi that grace the pages of reputable math journals.
by MathPlus June 27, 2021
Someone who specializes on collecting stamps of all shapes and sizes featuring the number pi on them, be it as a number, symbol, or word in any languages—with or without other numbers or symbols.
by MathPlus November 09, 2020