A teaching format that effectively prepares students to the test: worked examples followed by lots of practice on similar questions—algorithmic mastery over conceptual fluency.
Average teachers just love drill-and-kill math, because it gives oft-low self-esteem kids the illusion that they've mastered the concepts—teachers are happy, students gain self-confidence, and parents are pleased with the decent grades.
by MathPlus April 18, 2017
When the student who fails to solve an exam math question decides to sue the teacher or school by falsely claiming that the question is incorrectly posed or that it has allegedly more than one valid answer, which is unfair to the problem solver.
Don was such a bigly loser for failing to answer more than half of the SAT math questions that his parents have frivolously filed three lawsuits against the teacher, the principal, and the school for math fraud.
by MathPlus November 05, 2020
The name of a barking dog that can’t bite, so over time people have got used to tolerating its noise pollution, which could cause an earache or headache at times, when it doesn’t get what it wants.
During the rut, Donald Trump gets pretty aggressive when it has to fight with other domineering dogs to lure the bitch of choice.
by MathPlus October 08, 2021
When Donald J. Trump thought he experienced an aha! in the middle of the night after his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) lies-plagued speech that trademarking part of his name, if approved, would swiftly help him pay his bigly debts and mounting legal fees without having to serially cook the books.
by MathPlus March 02, 2021
A discount of not less than 19 percent for any buyer of math titles in Singapore, who has been jabbed by WHO-approved vaccines, as long as they show proof of their inoculation at the time of purchase.
To encourage vaccination among the population, especially among those who wished not to be inoculated because of potential side effects or premature death, local publishers in Singapore are resorting to creative marketing to promote a number of their dated Singapore MathⓋ titles.
by MathPlus January 18, 2021
The only name that has the power to save, to heal, and to bless—the Name that is above all other names that can set people free from evil spirits and bondages and restore broken relationships.
Jesus Christ gives birth to the Christian community—the only one that exists for the sake of non-members—whose aim is to bring in the lost sheep that are “outside” God’s Kingdom.
by MathPlus November 19, 2017
A unit of information equal to ten billion billion (or ten million trillion) bytes: 10¹⁹, or a 1 with 19 zeros at the end—sometimes known as 10 giga-gigabyte (10 × 10⁹ × 10⁹), and written as 1 🦠B.
If all of earthlings’ talks and tweets about Donald J. Trump’s lies and white lies while he was at the White House were to be made available online, would a coronabyte suffice to storing them?
by MathPlus August 02, 2021