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When people in some places are more likely to be bitten by a snake or cobra during a lockdown than contracting the coronavirus—these venomous reptiles are being spotted more frequently as they search for smaller or middle sized animals, which have moved away from their natural habitat, to survive.
Due to frequent lockdowns in a number of cities in China, people are more afraid of Covid-🐍 than Covid-19.
by MathPlus July 5, 2022
Get the Covid-🐍mug. Someone who has learned to hit the delete button whenever a negative or discouraging thought tries to infect his mental software to make him look guilty, stupid, or worried.
Samuel wouldn’t be where he’s today had he not been a delete expert—more often than not, he’s able to neutralize any negative or doubtful thought with a positive biblical verse.
by MathPlus December 23, 2018
Get the Delete Expertmug. Singapore’s beloved or narcotized visualization problem-solving strategy that allows word problems set in upper grades to be solved without algebra in lower grades, by using part-whole or comparison models in the form of bars or rectangles.
The bar model method is so addictive that an unhealthy number of Singapore math students in middle school, who are expected to use algebra to solve challenging math questions, couldn’t be weaned from it.
by MathPlus November 25, 2020
Get the Bar Model Methodmug. The name for a little-known FBI unit that unprovenly looks into the corrupt and criminal practices of the 45th President of the United States and his cronies, particularly his shady or bogus businesses worldwide—they want to uncover suspected decades-long money laundering, tax evasion, and illegal foreign donation from rogue politicians or dictators.
Besides probing his business malpractices, and political collusions and treasons with foreign powers, Trumpol investigators are also looking at alleged prostitution or escort activities the ex-president was involved in before he moved into the White House.
by MathPlus June 8, 2021
Get the Trumpolmug. When math educators fly to the “fine” city of Singapore to attend a pep talk on the bar model method, and to visit a local school and watch a teacher conduct a problem-solving math lesson, before spending the rest of their educational trip on shopping and sightseeing.
When Singapore Math tourism visitors flew back home, they’d excitedly tell their principals or superintendents to embrace the Singapore Math model, by substituting their present dear mile-wide-inch-deep textbooks with wallet-friendly Singapore math titles, often much to the disapproval of their colleagues, who want to “Make US Math Great Again.”
by MathPlus January 3, 2021
Get the Singapore Math Tourismmug. A phrase that implies that the world doesn’t need more fake billionaires, more corrupt leaders, more serial liars, more narcissists, more racists, and more white supremacists, but rather more God-fearing and honest heads of state who give a damn about something other than benefiting themselves and their oft-shady businesses.
Although President Biden told the world that America is back on the world stage, however, US allies feel ambivalent about this new political normal, because for them, one Trump is one too many.
by MathPlus February 27, 2021
Get the One Trump is one too many.mug. When the mind’s eye could see clearly how fake, irresponsible, or inept political leaders’ selfish actions (and inactions) led to the world’s failure to contain the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
In the aftermath of many leaders’ fake 2020 vision, even with vaccination presently being rolled out in many developed countries, life in 2021 is unlikely to return to its pre-pandemic days.
by MathPlus January 5, 2021
Get the 2020 Visionmug.