When gender remains a sensitive issue in many so-called liberal developed countries, even as religious leaders and politically correct politicians preach about an all-inclusive society, where there should be zero discrimination against those with different sexual orientations.
Should arguments for X and why, or against it, be used to decide whether transgender people born with a mutated gene make-up be allowed to use both male and female public toilets?
by MathPlus November 18, 2018
Get the X and Whymug. The state when you are making the right or sensible decisions as anyone else—you need to make the "wrong decision," by doing the very opposite to stand out from the crowd.
If you don't want to be trapped, do the unreasonable thing, by taking the "bad decisions"—the safe decision often has boredom, danger, or poverty written all over it.
by MathPlus June 19, 2017
Get the Trappedmug. When math teachers reluctantly have to come to terms with new habits that would help them to keep their jobs in the new normal or post-pandemic, be it switching to more Zoom lessons in the aftermath of new lockdowns, monitoring students’ oft-unsatisfactory progress on Google Classroom, or communicating with ever-demanding parents on WhatsApp.
How many math educators worldwide decide to retire prematurely, as they can’t cope with the new normal math demands expected of them in the light of new waves of infection plaguing their nations?
by MathPlus April 25, 2021
Get the New Normal Mathmug. When unscrupulous mainland Chinese manufacturers ship millions of inferior or ISO-unapproved masks to syndicates in both developed and developing countries, which then distribute them to unsuspected hospitals and businesses—when low quality masks the wallet-friendly masks.
Is mask trafficking behind the difference between “Three China-made mask boxes for $10” and “One mask box at $8”?
by MathPlus March 27, 2021
Get the Mask Traffickingmug. An oft-unspoken disability whereby someone could hardly distinguish between the letter “O” and the number 0, often mistaking one for the other—the disorder was coined after the word “naught” for nothing, nil, or zero.
by MathPlus October 11, 2021
Get the Dysnauxiamug. The Japanese art of folding a square paper, with orange on one side and white on the other side, into a shape that resembles the Pinocchio-in-Chief.
A number of Trumpublican math educators in some red states are planning a Trumpgami Contest on Pi Day to remember the “educational contributions” of their one-term, twice-impeached, thrice-married ex-president, whose signature helped revoke Common Core Math in their schools.
by MathPlus June 22, 2021
Get the Trumpgamimug. When people are advised to avoid handshakes to lower the risk of getting infected with Covid-19, but urged to think of alternative ways to greet one another—for instance, they could bump elbows; embrace the Thai wai and say hi in prayer-like posture; or use the “footshake.”
by MathPlus June 29, 2022
Get the Covid-🤝mug.