The planetary equivalent of someone who suffered a heart attack that nearly killed them—which often arises due to zero exercise, unhealthy diet, or high-stress lifestyle—because earthlings made bad choices like deforesting and polluting the earth, ignoring the poor and the marginalized, and overspending on the military but underspending on health care systems.
COVID-19 exposes how fragile global supply chains are, how under-funded health or medical systems worldwide are, and how vulnerable the poor and marginalized in both developed and developing countries are.
by MathPlus March 11, 2021
When the crisp-and-crude method of calculation, which yields an approximate instead of an exact answer to a problem, is done on a mask rather than on an envelope or a napkin.
With billions of people wearing a face mask to shield themselves against the coronavirus, the back-of-the-mask thinking is a lifelong guesstimation skill math teachers and tutors worldwide ought to promote to students during this pandemic crisis.
by MathPlus September 20, 2020
When symbol-minded folks decide to come up with some math crackers in the form of π-related quickies and trickies for Christmas to enliven the mood of math geeks, who couldn’t wait to go back to school to indulge themselves in some creative problem solving.
Moonlighting school math teachers in Singapore have been pressured by some owners of tuition or enrichment math centers to come up with at least twenty-five brain-unfriendly Christmas pi questions to meet the mathematical needs and wants of their restless, bored students.
by MathPlus December 08, 2021
A dyslexia sufferer who has difficulty in algebra as they are prone to confusing variables like b and d, or p and q, thus reducing their chances of evaluating an expression, or solving an equation, involving these letters correctly.
Guesstimate how many byslexics worldwide fail their algebra test every year through no fault on their own.
by MathPlus October 02, 2021
The second book of Psalms warns both nations and rulers of two choices: defy God and perish, or depend on Him and prosper—those who are against Christ, God’s Anointed, will be frustrated and crushed, but those who surrender to Him and serve Him can rejoice with trembling.
If only nations, groups, and individuals that are against Christ and hell-bent to harming or destroying Christians and Jews worldwide grasp the meaning of Psalm 2, they’d know that their words and curses and actions would only lead them to more physical or financial pain and suffering, spiritual confusion, and eternal condemnation—those who defy God and His Kingdom in Jesus Christ would be broken, but those who surrender to Him would be blessed.
by MathPlus June 22, 2021
When mask wearing in most parts of the world remains mandatory to protect the population from infection, as a large proportion of them have yet to be vaccinated, with some anti-maskers or maskholes in the name of personal rights playing hide-and-seek with the authorities to avoid donning a face mask.
Although only fully vaccinated people are exempted from wearing a mask in public, tens of thousands of unjabbed diehard Trumpists in several red states pay lip service to the mask rules, because they figure out that the odds of them getting caught are very low.
by MathPlus June 08, 2021
When you irresponsibly or prematurely walk away from a math test or exam, instead of waiting until the end of the paper, when everyone is allowed to leave the room, because you can’t handle the difficult or brain-unfriendly questions, especially after boasting to the whole world that you have a “genius IQ.“
During the 60-minute math test the other day, everybody was surprised to see Don do a math trump, who consoled himself that he could always pay a Shapiro to sit for his SAT if he failed again.
by MathPlus October 27, 2020