by MathPlus November 30, 2020
Any fake story on the Pinocchio-in-Chief, whose manifold lies make him the political clown of choice among comedians and humorists worldwide.
One Trump joke goes as follows:
Don goes to prison and the first night he’s trying to get some sleep when he hears an inmate yell out, ‘19!’ followed by a chuckle from his cellmate. He didn’t pay attention to it, but then there was a yell of ‘47!’ and another chuckle.
‘What the heck is going on?’ he asks his cellmate.
‘Well, we’ve heard every presidential lie in here so often, so we’ve numbered them to save time.’
‘Oh,’ he says, ‘can I give it a try?’
‘Sure, no problem.’
So, Don yells out ‘11,780!’ and there is commotion. Wild laughter sweeps from cell to cell. Eventually the laughter subsided, and Don turns to his cellmate who is wiping his tears of joy. ‘That was a good one, dude?’
‘Yeah! We’ve never heard that lie before!’
Don goes to prison and the first night he’s trying to get some sleep when he hears an inmate yell out, ‘19!’ followed by a chuckle from his cellmate. He didn’t pay attention to it, but then there was a yell of ‘47!’ and another chuckle.
‘What the heck is going on?’ he asks his cellmate.
‘Well, we’ve heard every presidential lie in here so often, so we’ve numbered them to save time.’
‘Oh,’ he says, ‘can I give it a try?’
‘Sure, no problem.’
So, Don yells out ‘11,780!’ and there is commotion. Wild laughter sweeps from cell to cell. Eventually the laughter subsided, and Don turns to his cellmate who is wiping his tears of joy. ‘That was a good one, dude?’
‘Yeah! We’ve never heard that lie before!’
by MathPlus June 03, 2021
When locals’ and aliens’ mixed attitude vis-à-vis otters and their apparently manageable growing population on the “fine” city of Singapore provides a fertile ground for math educators to pose a number of brain-unfriendly questions to challenge exam-smart symbol-minded students.
Two otter math questions from a Singapore math problem solving book are:
1. At a recent otter attack at a church’s fish pond, five koi fish were swallowed up, while the remaining partially eaten fish were left with one or two eyes. From the 17 koi fish in the pond, the verger found only 16 eyes. How many koi fish lost only one eye?
2. On average, what percentage of fish in a pond get eaten by an otter family every time they terrorize a condominium located in some posh area of Singapore?
1. At a recent otter attack at a church’s fish pond, five koi fish were swallowed up, while the remaining partially eaten fish were left with one or two eyes. From the 17 koi fish in the pond, the verger found only 16 eyes. How many koi fish lost only one eye?
2. On average, what percentage of fish in a pond get eaten by an otter family every time they terrorize a condominium located in some posh area of Singapore?
by MathPlus December 11, 2021
The equivalent of a bus driver in the sky, who earns a much higher salary because of the apparently higher risk of their passengers not reaching their destination safely.
by MathPlus January 17, 2019
When the most important day of the year for millions of earthly fathers in pre-pandemic days is already low key or an almost a non-event, unlike Mother’s Day that looks more like a year long affair— Father’s Day has taken a back seat in human or family relationship during this coronavirus crisis, when eating or dining out is forbidden in many parts of the world that are experiencing their second, third, or fourth wave.
This year, ironically or sadly speaking, in a number of liberal countries, Father’s Day in a pandemic is being celebrated in homes where the child is looked after by two dads rather than one—it’s Fathers’ Day, or Father’s Day 2.0, that would test the moral or social fabric of Generation Y or Z in coming decades.
by MathPlus June 20, 2021
Unrealistic or nonsensical word or story problems, routine and nonroutine, that may or not be solvable—however, most of them serve to humorize, parodize, or satirize mathematics.
One question from “The Bigly Book of Fake Math Problems” is the following: “At a Trump rally, if 10 coronaviruses infect 10 diehard supporters in 10 minutes, how many of these foreign viruses will be needed to infect 100 supporters in 50 minutes?”
by MathPlus November 24, 2020
When someone’s worth as a person in society is often defined by their grade in school math, which means that the odds of their securing a promising career or future look bleak if they were not born with the “mathematical gene” or didn’t have a silver-spoon upbringing.
Guesstimate how many millions of otherwise intelligent people worldwide have their dreams dashed every year, because the course they plan to study in college requires them to have a passing grade in math or statistics or calculus—in other words, what percentage of the world’s population has been unfairly or unjustifiably been masked by math?
by MathPlus July 27, 2021