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When what you need is the presence of Jesus and His favor and blessing in your life to make you a success, and not the material things you have accumulated.
If you let your big job title, fat bank account, or connections with people of influence be your life success, you’ll feel like a failure when these are gone; however, when you’ve Jesus in your life, you needn’t try to be a success, because you’re a success—stop pursuing things, start pursuing Him.
by MathPlus January 2, 2019
Get the Stop Pursuing Things, Start Pursuing Himmug. When the world’s most disliked school subject is not a spectator but a player sport; when you need to do math rather than just read about it—the very reason why pop or general math books seldom help raise the mathematical or quantitative literacy of their armchair readers.
Recreationally speaking, math is a noun, but painfully or cognitively speaking, math is a verb—reading and understanding a math proof is one thing; guessing and checking and failing repeatedly and finally proving or solving a math problem is the actual thing.
by MathPlus December 28, 2020
Get the Math Is a Verbmug. When someone deliberately uses masks to ignite their creativity, such as donning a face mask while venturing in the wilderness or in an open air surrounding, with no one around, in the hope of getting some novel ideas for a project, or of experiencing an aha to a wicked problem.
After being stuck for weeks with an unsolved math problem, Prof. Dean decided to go for a mask therapy, by trekking some off-campus mountainous region, and hoping to be rewarded with some insight during the trip.
by MathPlus June 21, 2021
Get the Mask Therapymug. A face mask designed by a mathepreneur that has a math question printed on it, which aims at reducing innumeracy among its wearers during this pandemic crisis—when both safety and numeracy are achieved in a profitable way.
At $1 per MathMask™, or at $10 a dozen, these “smart masks” are expected to be popular gift items among both pro- and anti-Trump evangelicals this Christmas.
by MathPlus November 3, 2020
Get the MathMask™mug. When a math educator has emerged from their cocoon to be at zero mercy of a controlling or demanding boss, or of an oft-stifling educational system, to take charge of what they want to do in math or math education in spite of the risks and uncertainties before them.
For the large majority of teachers and tutors, procrastination or the fear of failure has prevented them from becoming the mathematical butterfly God has destined them to be.
by MathPlus July 14, 2021
Get the Mathematical Butterflymug. The suspected Judas in President Trump’s administration, who stabbed his boss in the back, by writing a treasonous letter to the newspaper to expose his irrational and amoral behaviors, and to reveal why his staff deliberately withheld information from him.
Could Trump anonymous betrayer-writer ever be identified, assuming that he or she is not a New York Times staff writer who ghostwrote the op-ed to discredit the President?
by MathPlus September 9, 2018
Get the Trump Anonymousmug. When someone’s birthday falls on the most important date of the math calendar—when the most number of pies and pizzas are unprovenly being ordered on a single day by math educators and mathematicians worldwide to celebrate the number π.
What is the probability that a pirthday baby would also be experiencing their last day on earth on Pi Day?
by MathPlus November 4, 2021
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