A brain-unfriendly but wallet-friendly Singapore math title that irreverently leverages on the deadly coronavirus to teach creative mathematical problem solving—when the product of two negatives (Covid-19 and school math) is a positive (a confident and skilful problem solver).
Prof. Ian is trying to kill two mathematical birds with a numerical stone in 2020: he wants to launch “Singapura Mathematica” and “Corona Mathematica” at the same time in the midst of rising infection and mortality rates nationwide.
by MathPlus December 01, 2020
A nocturnal creature that continues to receive bad press since the coronavirus pandemic hit the planet, because it was blamed for unprovenly transmitting the virus to humans.
After a video showing a Chinese woman consuming bat soup (which was shot in Palau, and not in China, many years before the Covid-19 outbreak) was virally circulated, the bat has since become the world’s most notorious mammal.
by MathPlus March 09, 2021
A term used by oft-racist Asians to label a black person who is notorious to curry favor with the bosses, to backstab others, or to play office politics to get ahead of their peers.
Just as some racists angrily call contemptible or dishonest members of the black community snakes and ghosts, others call them bats and skunks.
by MathPlus April 16, 2021
When God’s “anointed” political savior of millions of white blue-collar workers and hundreds of thousands of white evangelicals says that two and two are five, there are no reasons why his diehard supporters should doubt or question about his brand of political math—when real statistics in politics are often concealed or concocted to boost the politician’s odds of winning an election or reelection.
For decades, it’s about “lies, damn lies, and statistics”; today, in an age of Trumpism, the new mantra for dishonesty is “lies, damn lies, and Trump’s lies.”
by MathPlus December 26, 2020
When properly handling or wearing a face mask is far from obvious, because a disturbing number of mask wearers are quasi-clueless how to properly protect themselves against the coronaviruses and their variants.
Like common sense that isn’t common after all, the general population needs to be continually exposed to the art of masking through health awareness campaigns to avoid preventable corona infections or deaths.
by MathPlus November 01, 2021
When conspiracists or Trumpists-turned-QAnonists attributed the origin of the coronavirus not to a lab in Wuhan but to the extraterrestrials that apparently wanted to harm the earthlings, or to prove to them that they are inferior to other galactic beings.
President Trump, who blamed China for infecting the US with Covid-19, refused to expose the conspiracy promoted by some of his supporters for linking Covid-👽 to the high number of infection cases and deaths plaguing the country.
by MathPlus September 26, 2020
Short for “Pi Parrot.” Someone who takes part in a memory competition that requires them to recite as many digits of the decimal number π as possible, when the local winner stands a chance of getting their name into their country’s Book of Records, or the global winner into the Guinness Book of Records.
Guesstimate the total number of amateur and professional pirrots worldwide, who spend thousands of hours every year training for the pithon or pi competition.
by MathPlus October 18, 2021