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Covid-📱
When there have never been so many public queries worldwide on the coronavirus to the authorities, as millions of infected people seek direction and admission into hospitals, and millions of others dialed to inquire about unemployment benefits and corona assistance for folded-up businesses.
Guesstimate how many Covid-📱calls were made globally during the lockdowns, as the number of infections and deaths show no signs of abating.
Covid-📱 by MathPlus November 28, 2020
Trump-sense
A biologically inherited but atrophied sense that allows some born with an average or below-average IQ and EQ to punch above their weight cognitively, by lying and scheming their way to only survive but also thrive in life, without getting caught, fined, and jailed for their unethical and immoral lifestyle.
Don has resurrected this trump-sense in him, which had enabled him to become the most powerful man in the world even for just “serving” one term in office.
Trump-sense by MathPlus November 28, 2020
No Mask, No Math
The slogan by math educators for their pseudoscientific or conspiracist audience, who argue that mask wearing or social distancing is ineffective in protecting them and others, especially for those who now have a certain degree of immunity after recovering from Covid-19.
Pastors tell their congregations: “no mask, no mass”; principals tell their classes: “no mask, no math.”
No Mask, No Math by MathPlus November 27, 2020
Bar Model Method
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.
Bar Model Method by MathPlus November 25, 2020
Mathematical Entropy
When there is an imbalance in opportunity between one math student and another—say, for instance, between a student born in Singapore and one born in Sudan; or one attending a neighborhood school and another one in an elite or private school—which can be reduced or eliminated by affirmative action policies or by government grants or subsidies.
Covid-19 has exposed the mathematical entropy between those who can afford to study from home and those without a computer or internet connection.
Mathematical Entropy by MathPlus November 25, 2020
Fake Math Problems
Unrealistic or nonsensical word or story problems, routine and nonroutine, that may or not be solvable—however, most of them serve to humorize, parodize, or satirize mathematics.
One question from “The Bigly Book of Fake Math Problems” is the following: “At a Trump rally, if 10 coronaviruses infect 10 diehard supporters in 10 minutes, how many of these foreign viruses will be needed to infect 100 supporters in 50 minutes?”
Fake Math Problems by MathPlus November 23, 2020
Mathematically Irreverent
When someone decides to coin a math word or phrase, or to redefine an existing one, without fear of being censured, rebuked, punished, or fired.
Urban Dictionary remains the social platform of choice for mathematically irreverent writers, who just want to sexify or spice the most boring or disliked school subject for millions of students worldwide.
Mathematically Irreverent by MathPlus November 23, 2020