Definitions by MathPlus

Scissors Math 

When math publishers resort to retrenching editors and shelving new manuscripts in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, thus shattering the dream of both novice and seasoned math writers.

In spite of financial assistance from the government to help businesses save jobs, a number of family-owned publishers worldwide are enacting scissors math measures on the pretext of preventing their companies from going under.

Scissors Math by MathPlus February 17, 2021

Trump Toll

The number of avoidable corona infections and deaths, and the number of jobs lost, businesses destroyed, and futures compromised or shattered due to the ineptitude of Donald J. Trump, whose selfish actions and inactions make him the worst US president or head of state in modern history.

Trump toll shows that good governance, not developed public infrastructure, is the variable that determines the success or failure for a country in containing the coronavirus crisis.

Trump Toll by MathPlus February 16, 2021

V Math 

Short for “Vegan Math.” Math titles that indirectly promote a vegan lifestyle, by having zero questions on diary products like meat and milk, and excluding any brain-unfriendly chickens-and-rabbits and eggs word problems.

Math publishers are pressuring their meat-eating textbook authors for a V Math edition, by replacing questions on eggs, chocolate bars, and the like with non-diary products to target the millions of students and teachers with a vegan or vegetarian diet worldwide.

V Math by MathPlus February 16, 2021

Math Art 

When you combine talent, skill, craft, and creativity to bring new light to old math problems, such as solving both routine and nonroutine math questions in a creative or unconventional way.

Be it using an abacus to differentiate and integrate functions, chopsticks to multiply two numbers, or a paper clock to teach number patterns, you are doing math art.

Math Art by MathPlus February 16, 2021

Ⓥalentine’s Day 

When only vaccinated couples or lovers are allowed to dine at restaurants on singles’ “most dreaded day of the year” if they show proof of inoculation at the entrance, or had previously emailed a copy of their certificate of vaccination while making a booking.

On this Ⓥalentine’s Day, guesstimate how many unvaccinated couples worldwide were turned away because they posed a health hazard to both restaurant owners and staff and the diners.

Ⓥalentine’s Day by MathPlus February 14, 2021

McConnell 

A label for a political hypocrite who votes to acquit a bad or evil person, then condemns them for their unethical, criminal, or treasonous act—named after US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who acquitted Donald J. Trump of treason, before holding the Inciter-in-Chief responsible for his white supremacist and terrorist supporters’ deadly attack on the Capitol.

In the second impeachment trial of the Commander in Cheat, the Senate’s 57-43 vote shows that there are at least 43 morally bankrupt McConnells who are too petrified to vote against their Divider-in-Chief.

McConnell by MathPlus February 14, 2021

Coronanoia 

When you feel paranoiac of catching the coronavirus from someone who coughs, talks loudly on their smartphone, or walks around without a face mask in public squares.

Be it on a train, in a supermarket, or at a hawker center, it’d not be surprising that a large proportion of people suffer from a mild form of coronanoia.

Coronanoia by MathPlus February 13, 2021