When you combine talent, skill, craft, and creativity to bring new light to old math problems, such as solving both routine and nonroutine math questions in a creative or unconventional way.
Be it using an abacus to differentiate and integrate functions, chopsticks to multiply two numbers, or a paper clock to teach number patterns, you are doing math art.
by MathPlus February 16, 2021
When authoritarian regimes force millions of anti-vaxxers to get a shot even if their jobs don’t require them to do so, or if they are no longer working or have retired—they have a choice: jab or jail.
Guesstimate how many folks worldwide would rather face vaccine persecution by going to jail than compromising on their religious conviction.
by MathPlus July 11, 2021
Unable to sleep because of one’s fear of failing an upcoming algebra test, because of low confidence or poor self-esteem, or an irrational fear working with letters that represent numbers.
Jenny suffered from severe insomgebra and loss of appetite over the weekend before she sat for her math paper on Monday morning.
by MathPlus October 31, 2017
Also known as a “Trump certificate.” A fake Covid-19 vaccine passport that could be purchased on the black market or dark web, or sometimes even downloaded free of charge by clicking a link and filling in one’s personal details.
Guesstimate how many trumpificates are in circulation worldwide as anti-vaxxers play cat and mouse with the authorities, which don’t have the manpower nor the knowhow to expose those digitally savvy criminals.
by MathPlus November 15, 2021
When President Trump repealed the “leftish” Common Core Math, approved by President Obama, with zero idea how to replace it with a better “rightish” math curriculum to help millions of US students compete internationally in math—he just wants to pacify opponents of the “left curriculum,” whose children can’t cope with it, in exchange for their votes.
Does the stand-back-stand-by math sound like some curricular or mathematical equivalent of the repeal-and-replace Obamacare? If politics over math could increase the odds of getting the president re-elected, the risks are worth taking.
by MathPlus October 01, 2020
When an oft-autistic person can see the first few hundred or thousand digits of the number π in their mind’s eye.
Don has such a pinographic memory that he can effortlessly recite the first ten thousand digits instantly, as he sees them flowing down a mountain top.
by MathPlus January 20, 2021
When students’ reliance on a scientific or graphing calculator prevents them from being fluent in performing certain basic operations, such as factorizing a function, finding the zeros of a cubic polynomial, and standardizing a normal distribution from the Statistical Tables—ritually pressing a set of keys often conceals their poor understanding or mastery of these routines.
If only math teachers and tutors would implement the “No Calculators Allowed” rule, students would be manually forced to learn the routine or tedious steps in getting the answer to some intermediate step of a problem.
by MathPlus October 31, 2021