A fly-by-night opportunist who imports cheap face masks from China, most of which probably don’t meet the safety health standards for public use, to repackage and resell them to both developed and developing countries, or to offer them online at a wallet-unfriendly price.
In the aftermath of the shortage of face masks in so many parts of the world, maskepreneurs have sprung up overnight to meet the demands of millions of unvaccinated people, who want to mask themselves until they receive their jab.
by MathPlus June 18, 2021
An introductory course on the number zero offered at some community colleges as part of the popularization of mathematics to an oft-semi-innumerate public.
by MathPlus August 26, 2021
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 25, 2021
When your success in life depends on whether you are worshipping your problem or God—you need to put Him on the throne, while taking down your negatives, fears, bad breaks, or offenses off the throne—there is room only for one up there.
Don’t give your educational or financial lack, debt, or cancer the permission to be on your throne; instead, keep them off the throne, because the key to allowing or stopping God’s reign over your life is: “Who’s on your throne?”
by MathPlus September 24, 2018
When the effort or resourcefulness of tens of thousands of math tutors in Singapore covers up most local school teachers’ poor teaching pedagogies or methodologies and their low enthusiasm or creativity, thus exonerating the latter in making the subject appear dull and boring and unconnected to real life.
If there was a months-long lockdown in Singapore due to the pandemic, except for the thousands of families who can’t afford private tuition for their children, the math grades of the majority of middle-class students wouldn’t significantly suffer, because of a mask for math culture that has permeated the entire educational system for decades.
by MathPlus September 12, 2021
When schools or states are willing to change their textbooks every other year, as publishers tempt teachers with free resources (and bribe them with airline and cruise tickets).
Getting an entire state to adopt a publisher's set of textbooks is worth millions of dollars, so the sales and marketing personnel would go all out to play yo-yo math with decision makers to get them to choose their titles over those of their competitors.
by MathPlus July 26, 2017
When desperately needed foreign workers trained to slaughter and process turkeys reared for Christmas are not allowed in the country unless they serve their 14-day quarantine on arrival, whose absence would affect producers with low supply and consumers with high price.
Thanks to Covid-🦃, a lucky percentage of the nine million turkeys in the UK would have their lives spared during this 2020 Christmas period.
by MathPlus October 22, 2020