Math questions that leverage on the coronavirus pandemic—lockdowns, infections, deaths, face masks, social distancing measures, stimulus packages, tax rebates, rent reliefs, vaccines, and the like—to hone students’ problem-solving or guesstimation skills.
Two Covid-19 math questions are:
1. After parking their cars, 317 Trump supporters took a bus instead of walked to the rally. Each bus can hold 28 passengers. How many buses were needed to ferry them?
2. Eric and Don each have a certain number of face masks. If Eric gave Don five masks, Don would have twice as many masks as him. If Don gave five masks to Eric, they each would have the same number of masks. How many face masks does each brother have? Answer: Eric: 25, Don: 35.
1. After parking their cars, 317 Trump supporters took a bus instead of walked to the rally. Each bus can hold 28 passengers. How many buses were needed to ferry them?
2. Eric and Don each have a certain number of face masks. If Eric gave Don five masks, Don would have twice as many masks as him. If Don gave five masks to Eric, they each would have the same number of masks. How many face masks does each brother have? Answer: Eric: 25, Don: 35.
by MathPlus December 16, 2020
Get the COVID-19 MATHmug. Three letters academically inclined folks long to insert after their names, as they are set to spend tens of thousands of dollars and slog through thousands of man-hours to earn it—they couldn’t care less whether their dissertations have near-zero value or impact on the outside world or not.
In an age when you can virtually order your fake PhD of any prestigious university for a few hundred bucks in a matter of days, who says that a doctorate degree is meant only for geeks or nerds?
by MathPlus November 13, 2018
Get the PhDmug. by MathPlus November 29, 2020
Get the Procrastinationmug. When an unvaccinated person assumes that the authorities would grant them a medical exemption to take part in a national event, tournament, or competition because of their fame and wealth, or denying them a privileged or unfair entry would incur loss of tourism revenue and create negative publicity for the country.
In appealing against the cancellation of a visa entry to Australia—which was decided in the name of “health and safety and in the public interest”—lawyers of the world’s number one tennis player failed to convince the court that their djokovicinated client wouldn’t "increase in anti-vaccination sentiment" and even incite "civil unrest.”
by MathPlus January 16, 2022
Get the Djokovicinatedmug. Short for “Mathematicians Are Terribly Haughty.” When pure mathematicians who pridefully claims to study math for math’s sake regard applied mathematicians as second-rate, and math educators from the School of Education as third-rate.
When asked what M.A.T.H stands for, a twelve-year-old student answered his math teacher: “Monotonous, Abstract, Terrifying, Hard.”
by MathPlus May 11, 2021
Get the M.A.T.Hmug. When the individual right to liberty and freedom as part of human rights gives people the choice to decide whether or not to wear a face mask, especially if the authorities have made mask wearing mandatory for everyone in public places—in practice, they could be fined or jailed (or even caned in some extreme cases) for refusing to don a mask.
In a number of red states, millions of hardcore Trumpublicans have used personal, religious, or political freedom as their weapon of mask destruction—they’re not going to bow down to “mask oppression” even if a jail imprisonment awaits them for their repeated social disobedience.
by MathPlus July 15, 2021
Get the Weapon of Mask Destructionmug. The politically correct version of “Truth or Falsehood” among morally corrupt lawmakers, who are more afraid of man than God, or who are afraid of losing rather than doing their job; or among white blue-collar “evangelicals” or conspiracists who see the Liar-in-Chief or Pharisee-in-Chief as the “anointed” one to save them from the devil’s schemes.
In the “Truth or Trump” battle of conscience over the effort to investigate the January 6 Capitol insurrection, the score was: Trump 175 Truth 35—there were five times as many GOP members who voted to exonerate the Insurrectionist-in-Chief as those who voted to charge him.
by MathPlus May 20, 2021
Get the Truth or Trumpmug.