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When most K–12 Singapore math writers would find it almost irresistible not to set questions on Covid-19 and its variants, masks, vaccines, and lockdowns, by adding some context to their content in their new manuscripts, unless their publishers think that it is morbid or a bad omen to do so, by rationalizing that the product of two negatives (people’s fear of math and of the virus) is not a positive in this case.
As Singapore reluctantly lives with Covid, it’s understandable that those who had lost loved ones to Covid-19 have reservations about Singapore math going endemic in this new normal.
by MathPlus November 4, 2021
Get the Singapore Math Going Endemicmug. Math titles that marry decent quality with affordability—authors must be racially, religiously, and sexually sensitive, while the Ministry of Education (MOE) controls the price of the books.
Because Singapore math books cost a fraction of their American counterparts, US distributors have been importing them for homeschoolers, who think they're getting value-for-money textbooks—a number of them might even mistake Singapore for a city in China.
by MathPlus August 11, 2016
Get the Singapore Math Booksmug. When the brain function of patients with severe Covid-19 could be impaired, as the virus could invade the frontal lobe through nerves in the nose.
Those suffering from Covid-🧠 are likely to have movement disorders like tremor or seizures, which can cause problems with planning and social behavior.
by MathPlus March 15, 2021
Get the Covid-🧠mug. When someone describes the math taught in Singapore schools as being too difficult to understand, or complains that young students are unhealthily exposed to an obscene number of brain-unfriendly math questions—“cheem” means “deep” in the Chinese dialect Hokkien.
Ahmad who could hardly understand Mr. Goon’s lessons told his parents: “Singapore math, so cheem. I gave up!”
by MathPlus May 14, 2021
Get the Singapore Math, So Cheemmug. An instrument of oppression or persecution in the eyes of anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, and religious folks, who believe that they won’t be infected because they are divinely protected from any coronaviruses and their variants.
With loved ones and friends succumbing to the delta variant, more and more Trumpublicans and conspiracists in a number of red states are coming to terms that both the mask and the vaccine could protect them from infection and premature death—talks about 666-vaccination or mask oppression have suddenly evaporated.
by MathPlus September 12, 2021
Get the Maskmug. The slogan the Opposition in Singapore fearfully want to use so that citizens and residents can criticize the authorities, or could stage public protests, without the risk of being arrested or sued.
The “fear factor” among Singaporeans to speak up and to speak out has numbed them and made them politically indifferent—with lawsuits against political critics on the rise in recent years, the Opposition’s promise to make Singapore free again is just a dream for now.
by MathPlus December 14, 2018
Get the Make Singapore Free Againmug. A feeling of having witnessed Trump’s present impeachment before, who incited his diehard supporters-turned-terrorists on January 6, 2021 to help him illegally extend his White House stay for another faux more years.
Other than the audience having zero access to the Pinocchio-in-Chief’s racist and white supremacist tweets, there is a sense of déjà coup at his second impeachment trial, and a feeling of moral bankruptcy plaguing the majority of the GOP members, who are hell-bent to acquit him in spite of his treasonous act.
by MathPlus February 10, 2021
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