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CECA Math

When Singapore’s Opposition parties were only given a fraction of the politically charged numbers they requested from the government on the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), such as the total number of “foreign talents” from India and their family members who are presently working and living in the country, and the number of locals who benefited from the Singapore-India free trade agreement that was signed in 2005.

Singaporeans won’t lose sleep or go on strike because sensitively constipated CECA math statistics aren’t going to come out (until one day when the Opposition wins the hearts of a majority electorate)—99.99% of locals don’t need immigration figures as living proof, because they, their loved ones, or friends had seen or experienced the aftermath of this one-sided deal first-hand.

by MathPlus July 18, 2021

Covid Strikes in Threes

A belief among superstitious or idolatrous folks in some parts of Asia that the evil spirit of the coronavirus would linger around until it has claimed at least three victims within days in a certain locality.

Some polytechnic students couldn’t start their “morbid” project to test the paranormal hypothesis whether or not “Covid strikes in threes,” because it’s deemed “insensitive and heartless.”

by MathPlus February 27, 2021

Math Kaki

The name of the K–12 Singapore math project that aims to help students who are struggling with school math but can’t afford private tuition, or to prevent the unmotivated ones from dropping the world’s most disliked school subject because they are allergic to the teaching style of their teacher or tutor—“kaki” is the Singlish word to describe a close friend or a buddy.

Unlike teachers employed by self-help groups, who tend to be of the same race as that of the students, volunteers from Math Kaki come from all racial groups and economic backgrounds, who have a heart to raise the mathematical proficiency level of those under their charge, regardless of their race, religion, or orientation.

by MathPlus September 19, 2021

The Four “F” Words in Math

FEAR of not understanding the new math concepts.

FRUSTRATION in struggling to make sense of the concepts.

FATIGUE from mental stress and emotional pain in grasping the concepts.

FAILURE in mastering and applying the concepts.

Winners have not only banned the four-letter F-word from their vocabulary when faced with the most disliked school subject, but they have also refused to let the four “F” words in math rent a space in their minds.

by MathPlus January 8, 2018

Not all vaccines are created equal.

When non-Western home-grown—half-baked or partially trialed—vaccines are shunned even by locals, which are often donated or exported at a discounted price to developing countries that can’t afford the “safer” ones produced by the West—the top three countries involved in this vaccine diplomacy game are China, India, and Russia, whose “cheap-and-cheat” vaccines do not exude much confidence among millions of targeted recipients.

Although the Chinese, Indian, or Russian vaccines are offered free of charge to them, millions of people in the developing world refuse to be jabbed, because they know too well that not all vaccines are created equal.

by MathPlus January 24, 2021

Covid-🇿🇦

When South Africa is the birthplace of at least two Covid-19 mutants—the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) and the Beta variant (B.1.351)—where gangs have often filled in the spaces the state has not filled, such as distributing soap, masks, food, and drugs, thus exposing the failure of the resources-rich nation to meet people’s basic needs.

What are the odds that presently WHO-approved vaccines are quasi-defenseless against the infectious and transmissible Covid-🇿🇦 variants?

by MathPlus November 27, 2021

🇸🇦₉₁₁ & 🇨🇳🦠₁₉

Two deadly mass events—the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by radical Islamists from Saudi Arabia and the December 2009 coronavirus pandemic spread by Chinese Communists from Wuhan—that had killed thousands of innocent lives due to radical ideology and viral cover-up, with fear, death, loss, pain, and trauma among the common denominators.

Between 🇸🇦₉₁₁ & 🇨🇳🦠₁₉, which event has greater eternal consequences for mankind, besides their present religious and political ramifications on earth?

by MathPlus September 12, 2020