What the seven members in the quadrilateral squad—parallelogram, rectangle, square, rhombus, kite, trapezoid, isosceles trapezoid—desire to be known as, because they all want to join the Polygon fraternity.
Like the triangle who recently branded itself as a trigon, all quadrilateral hope that in the new year they would all love to be identified as a quadgon.
by MathPlus April 21, 2018
Get the Quadgonmug. The mutated strand of coronavirus from the “fine” city that is deadly to kids, as fictionally claimed by Opposition politicians in the Land of the Gandhis, which could usher in India’s third wave, if zero flights between Singapore and India are not enforced.
The authorities refuted the idea of the “Singapore variant,” which seems more like the Opposition in Delhi poking fun at the ineptitude of PM Modi and his team in containing the pandemic crisis.
by MathPlus May 18, 2021
Get the Singapore Variantmug. Also known as “Trump idolatry.” The worship or idolization of Donald J. Trump by millions of blue-collar workers and white evangelicals, not to say, white supremacists and terrorists, who see him as their “political savior”; and the fake respect for him by morally corrupt lawmakers, who daren’t oppose him lest their reelection prospects are dashed.
Trumpolatry may be likened to the American equivalent of the deification of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, when oft-radicalized followers or diehard supporters would faithfully carry the orders of their “anointed” leader.
by MathPlus February 12, 2021
Get the Trumpolatrymug. When math teachers in a school or state can’t see eye to eye on the degree of accuracy the number π should be given in a math question—for example, should the students be asked to take π to be 22/7 or 3.14?
In the aftermath of the “Pi Brexit” war, a red state in the US has recorded at least a dozen resignations from hardcore evangelical math teachers, who refuse to bulge unless the schools agree to use the biblical value of three for π.
by MathPlus October 16, 2021
Get the Pi Brexitmug. A problem-solving visualization heuristic that is the heart of the Singapore math curriculum, whose copyright is being contested by both China and Russia (or even Japan), because they claimed that the “look-see” methodology used to solve challenging word problems in elementary grades originated from them.
In the aftermath of the Singapore’s claim that they and the Canadian songwriter Hugh Harrison own the copyright to the “Count on Me, Singapore” song rather than the Indian composer Joseph Mendoza, China and Russia now want Singapore to compensate them for “plagiarizing” the bar model method for over three decades—unprovenly, it’s their tit-for-tat message to high-GDP Singapore for not approving their home-made, half-baked vaccines.
by MathPlus March 20, 2021
Get the Bar Model Methodmug. Word problems with a political or social agenda, which often reveals racial, religious, or societal divisions, or which exposes discrimination or prejudice against those from a different country, continent, caste, tribe, gender, lifestyle, race, religion, or belief.
Two political math classics in the recreational math literature, which condones bigotry and racism are:
1. A Turkish bath has 30 visitors in a day. The fee for Jews is 3 dirhams, for Christians 2 dirhams, and for Muslims 1/2 dirham. Thirty dirhams were earned by the bath. How many Christians, Jews, and Muslims attended?
2. A sinking ship must cast off passengers to survive. There are 15 Christians and 15 Turks aboard. The captain, himself a Christian, arranges the passengers in a circle where every ninth person will be thrown overboard. How should he make the arrangement so that the Christians survive?
1. A Turkish bath has 30 visitors in a day. The fee for Jews is 3 dirhams, for Christians 2 dirhams, and for Muslims 1/2 dirham. Thirty dirhams were earned by the bath. How many Christians, Jews, and Muslims attended?
2. A sinking ship must cast off passengers to survive. There are 15 Christians and 15 Turks aboard. The captain, himself a Christian, arranges the passengers in a circle where every ninth person will be thrown overboard. How should he make the arrangement so that the Christians survive?
by MathPlus November 23, 2020
Get the Political Mathmug. 