Fear-Free Math

When math-fearful believers need no longer suffer, if they would look up to Jesus, who died for them on the cross, whose blood has paid for every deliverance and healing of their addictions and afflictions—and this includes their freedom from mathophobia.
God can restore confidence in someone’s attitude towards math, be it by directing them to a better teacher, tutor, or textbook, because He wants them to live a fear-free math lifestyle.
by MathPlus January 08, 2019
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Pittoo

When someone conspicuously wears a π tattoo to publicly show their undeniable or unquestionable love for the irrational number.
Just because some gangsters have a pittoo on their forehead is no proof that they actually love the world’s most disliked school subject—on the contrary, it’d be very likely that they hate the symbol so much that they decided to wear it out of rebellion.
by MathPlus February 26, 2021
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Piometry

When the symbol π is seductively or sexily designed to make it appear like porn math to an oft-innumerate public—when the most famous constant in mathematics looks more pleasing to the naked eye than to the mind’s eye.
Even mathophobic artists couldn’t resist from indulging in some piometry every now and then to give their audience a glimpse of symbolic elegance.
by MathPlus April 29, 2021
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Philamask

Stamps that depict different face masks commonly worn by both the medical community and the lay public in various countries to protect themselves and others against the coronavirus.
Philatelists are excited that a number of countries would be issuing philamask commemoratives or first day covers to promote the message why it is mandatory for the public to don a face mask during a pandemic.
by MathPlus July 25, 2021
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Immoral Shots

When vaccine manufacturers are distributing Covid-19 vaccine booster shots to the rich and selfish countries, while paying lip service to the poor and corrupt nations, which depend mostly on donation from countries guilty of practicing vaccine diplomacy.
Is administering Covid-19 vaccine boosters “unjust” and “unfair” when only 7% of the population of Africa has received a dose, compared to more than 50% of the populations from other continents? How could selling these immoral shots to wealthy countries while ignoring the oft-rogue and dictatorial nations help to stop the pandemic globally?
by MathPlus October 13, 2021
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Pi Brexit

When math teachers in a school or state can’t see eye to eye on the degree of accuracy the number π should be given in a math question—for example, should the students be asked to take π to be 22/7 or 3.14?
In the aftermath of the “Pi Brexit” war, a red state in the US has recorded at least a dozen resignations from hardcore evangelical math teachers, who refuse to bulge unless the schools agree to use the biblical value of three for π.
by MathPlus October 16, 2021
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Bar Model Method

A problem-solving visualization heuristic that is the heart of the Singapore math curriculum, whose copyright is being contested by both China and Russia (or even Japan), because they claimed that the “look-see” methodology used to solve challenging word problems in elementary grades originated from them.
In the aftermath of the Singapore’s claim that they and the Canadian songwriter Hugh Harrison own the copyright to the “Count on Me, Singapore” song rather than the Indian composer Joseph Mendoza, China and Russia now want Singapore to compensate them for “plagiarizing” the bar model method for over three decades—unprovenly, it’s their tit-for-tat message to high-GDP Singapore for not approving their home-made, half-baked vaccines.
by MathPlus March 20, 2021
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